S
Stevie M
Hello guys, I'm looking ahead to do some changes on my network - the
reasons are both a few viruses and to get a more efficient home
network - and as part of it I'll be backing up the entire C partition
on my main pc and rebooting win xp. I've been running the system for
2½ years and in that time there's been a few downloads and security
patches.for xp and Explorer. Most of those are lodged under C:/
Windows/
SoftwareDistribution which is where hotfixes and the like land, but
is
that the *only* location they go to? And at the registry, are there
any changes made when xp is updated other than at HKLM/Software/
Microsoft/Updates/WindowsXP? That seems to be the main location where
updates to Windows will enter in the registry..Any other places in the
registry that are changed?
I don't feel like having to download every update afresh from the
web,
although I'll be making a list of the items beforehand, it would be
much smoother to simply move the "SoftwareDistribution" folder from
the
backup copied drive onto C\Windows after I've rebooted, and then
import
the registry keys. I hope this would work, but I'd like to know
because some programs, of course, don't run after a reboot unless
they're
reinstalled from the ground.
As I have a few viruses lodged on the system and they would wake up
as
soon as the backed-up partition is again in contact with the web, I
can't keep the windows part of the backup (on an external hd) intact
long after the reboot, I'll have to erase some parts of it before the
network goes online again, to avoid having the dirt wander back onto
the fresh system, so I 'll need to know where updates are installed.
I'm running Windows XP Pro SP1 - with several hotfixes and uopdates
that belong within sp2 and 3, haven't installed SP2 in its entirety
because it has a rep for interfering with other apps.
reasons are both a few viruses and to get a more efficient home
network - and as part of it I'll be backing up the entire C partition
on my main pc and rebooting win xp. I've been running the system for
2½ years and in that time there's been a few downloads and security
patches.for xp and Explorer. Most of those are lodged under C:/
Windows/
SoftwareDistribution which is where hotfixes and the like land, but
is
that the *only* location they go to? And at the registry, are there
any changes made when xp is updated other than at HKLM/Software/
Microsoft/Updates/WindowsXP? That seems to be the main location where
updates to Windows will enter in the registry..Any other places in the
registry that are changed?
I don't feel like having to download every update afresh from the
web,
although I'll be making a list of the items beforehand, it would be
much smoother to simply move the "SoftwareDistribution" folder from
the
backup copied drive onto C\Windows after I've rebooted, and then
import
the registry keys. I hope this would work, but I'd like to know
because some programs, of course, don't run after a reboot unless
they're
reinstalled from the ground.
As I have a few viruses lodged on the system and they would wake up
as
soon as the backed-up partition is again in contact with the web, I
can't keep the windows part of the backup (on an external hd) intact
long after the reboot, I'll have to erase some parts of it before the
network goes online again, to avoid having the dirt wander back onto
the fresh system, so I 'll need to know where updates are installed.
I'm running Windows XP Pro SP1 - with several hotfixes and uopdates
that belong within sp2 and 3, haven't installed SP2 in its entirety
because it has a rep for interfering with other apps.