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Posted July 2, 200717 yr

Hi,

I broke my installation of Windows XP SP2 after messing around with a

new vga card and had to perform a repair install. This mostly worked

OK, but my installations of SQL from VS2003.NET and the SQL component

of Outlook Business Contact manager both now seem to be broken.

Additionally MediaPlayer 9 is complaining that a dll file version is

too old and won't run because of that.

I think that the problems would be resolved if the updates to the

various installed programs could be reapplied. Unfortunately, I only

have a dial-up connection to this PC at this time (until recently I

did have broadband and was quite careful about updating the system).

Because of this, I would prefer not to re-download all the updates

from the MS website and I would like to know whether it is possible to

re-install them from the places they were originally downloaded to on

the current system ? Or will they all have been deleted since then ?

Alternatively, I do have broadband access at work and I could download

all required patches there and blow them to a disk for use at home.

Is there any way of doing this, and how would I know which updates my

home PC needs, and how could I ask my work PC to ask for them from the

MS server ?

Many thanks,

Mike Davies

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July 2, 200717 yr

I hope you take my bad news as well intended. Microsoft has recently disabled

the "Windows Catalog" support that would have made those updates available

for download. You now go to the "Windows Marketplace" site instead, from the

old catalog links.

If you need SP2, look for a path something like:

C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\355f788b6de8a3ec79e9aa172e6317f1\update\update.exe

Running the update.exe will install it.

Starting from sp2 will make things a bit less painful for the rest of the

updates on dialup.

I suppose it's possible to talk about using "Software Updare Server" (SUS),

but I feel that approach a lot more labor intensive than simply waiting out

the dialup.

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"Mike" wrote:

> Hi,

> I broke my installation of Windows XP SP2 after messing around with a

> new vga card and had to perform a repair install. This mostly worked

> OK, but my installations of SQL from VS2003.NET and the SQL component

> of Outlook Business Contact manager both now seem to be broken.

> Additionally MediaPlayer 9 is complaining that a dll file version is

> too old and won't run because of that.

> I think that the problems would be resolved if the updates to the

> various installed programs could be reapplied. Unfortunately, I only

> have a dial-up connection to this PC at this time (until recently I

> did have broadband and was quite careful about updating the system).

> Because of this, I would prefer not to re-download all the updates

> from the MS website and I would like to know whether it is possible to

> re-install them from the places they were originally downloaded to on

> the current system ? Or will they all have been deleted since then ?

> Alternatively, I do have broadband access at work and I could download

> all required patches there and blow them to a disk for use at home.

> Is there any way of doing this, and how would I know which updates my

> home PC needs, and how could I ask my work PC to ask for them from the

> MS server ?

> Many thanks,

> Mike Davies

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July 2, 200717 yr

On Jul 2, 2:02 pm, Mark L. Ferguson

<MarkLFergu...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I hope you take my bad news as well intended. Microsoft has recently disabled

> the "Windows Catalog" support that would have made those updates available

> for download. You now go to the "Windows Marketplace" site instead, from the

> old catalog links.

Actually, I think it may be back up - did you mean the facility at

"http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/catalog" ?

If so then it does seem like it would be useful for my needs, but how

can I obtain a list of required updates from my non-broadband

machine ?

> If you need SP2, look for a path something like:

> C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\355f788b6de8a3ec79e9aa172e6317f1\update\update.exe

> Running the update.exe will install it.

> Starting from sp2 will make things a bit less painful for the rest of the

> updates on dialup.

I slipstreamed SP2 but I got a load of "file not found" errors during

the installation, despite checking the CD ROM to verify the referenced

files were actually present (they were but for some reason the

installation routine could'nt see them)

> I suppose it's possible to talk about using "Software Updare Server" (SUS),

> but I feel that approach a lot more labor intensive than simply waiting out

> the dialup.

I've never heard of that...

Thanks for your advice,

Mike

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July 2, 200717 yr

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