celtish Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 NOW HERE'S THE THING ... Since M$ has disowned WinUpdate the time has come for some Einstein on this forum to kick off an unofficial WinUpdate! Any takers..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy_Rivers Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 theres already two such things. autopatcher and this well known little site called mdgx maybe your,ve heard of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celtish Posted April 17, 2007 Author Share Posted April 17, 2007 theres already two such things. autopatcher and this well known little site called mdgx maybe your,ve heard of it.Not to get so petulant my friend! Mdgx and Soporific are doing a fine job but we're talking about something different so get your thinking head screwed on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmsta Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 You want to make a repository of patches, right? I'm up for it. I've got the space/bandwidth, and I've looked into using jcarle's Windows Updates Downloader on Windows 9x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 You want to make a repository of patches, right? I'm up for it. I've got the space/bandwidth, and I've looked into using jcarle's Windows Updates Downloader on Windows 9x.If you make a UL for windows 98 you can point the download path to your hosting. I'd be happy to add windows 98 to our list of ULs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briton Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 WindizUpdate (www.windizupdate.com) works for many.Check their forums for info.Of course, you can't use it if you ONLY have Internet Explorer as a browser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 You want to make a repository of patches, right? I'm up for it. I've got the space/bandwidth, and I've looked into using jcarle's Windows Updates Downloader on Windows 9x.I also have plenty of space and bandwidth, so please feel free to point to any file at my site, if you wish.All patches are in this directory:www.mdgx.com/files/All service packs are in:www.mdgx.com/spx/Please e-mail me if you need more details.Thanks.HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celtish Posted April 24, 2007 Author Share Posted April 24, 2007 ... Ideally something that is akin to M$ WinUpdate i.e. a dedicated site which scans your machine to ascertain needed updates ... I can donate some webspace if that would be helpfull ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenoitRen Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 No. Websites shouldn't be able to access your files. However, a program that would connect to a website to verify if you have all the updates is a good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awergh Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 maybe something like the autopatchers report function which than brings up a web page with links to all the updates you need to download and install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briton Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 So did you try windizupdate yet? It works pretty well, it's free, it's had its source code opened up to users, it's well tested and covers most of XP (the site tells you what it doesn't cover and all of that is available easily elsewhere).I haven't tried it fully in Win98SE as I manually installed all the updates from disk (previously downloaded from Microsoft) until I found how good the autopatcher is). Otherwise, you could always redesign the wheel but it's best not to have to reinvent it! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celtish Posted May 17, 2007 Author Share Posted May 17, 2007 So did you try windizupdate yet? It works pretty well, it's free, it's had its source code opened up to users, it's well tested and covers most of XP (the site tells you what it doesn't cover and all of that is available easily elsewhere). I haven't tried it fully in Win98SE as I manually installed all the updates from disk (previously downloaded from Microsoft) until I found how good the autopatcher is). Otherwise, you could always redesign the wheel but it's best not to have to reinvent it! lolI installed it on my Firefox. Seems okay but I wouldn't go overboard about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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