Install order

[CarolinaCrawdad]

What is the method to the madness on what order the installs must be performed. Surely it must make some difference. Seems to me that if the order is incorrect, you will be writing bad objects over good objects. Is there some post that shows the order?

Thanks

[jcarle]

Older updates do not affect newer updates. The updates are smart enough to compare the version of the file and if the update is older then the current version, it just leaves it alone.

[blinkdt]

Hmm, so no need for qchain.exe then?

[Magical Mr. Mistoffelees]

well that entirely depends if you want everything applied at once without reboot or not.

however, if you do use chaining you need to be aware that some of the older updates do in fact need an installation order. that's because with some of the older updates when it comes to pending file moves, they will overwrite a file with a newer version. (that bug doesn't happen with newer updates)

as i said that only happens with the older updates, not those that have been release since '03 i believe (can't quite remember the date--hey MS may have even fixed that by now, although i don't think they did)