Post XP SP3 Update Pack

[Michael]

Just added the July updates released on Tuesday. Still haven't added .NET 3.5, but will do possibly in the next release.

[OutToLunch]

Bit cheeky, but any chance of hacking together some kind of incremental update? We're still on very flakey 512k DSL here, grabbed the first pack and using that but it causes problems for everyone else trying to use it if I keep grabbing large files.

[Michael]

It's a valid point OutToLunch. Not all of us have the luxury of 10Mbps like we have here in Birmingham schools.

 

The next update pack I'll create will probably be in September now. I'm hopeful .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 would of been released by then. After this I could create incremental packs so it only contained October's updates and so on...

 

In the meantime an easy way around the problem is to download KB951748, KB951978 and KB890830. Save them all to C:\Hotfixes\July\ (or wherever) and use the following code:

 

@echo off
setlocal
TITLE Windows XP SP3 Post Hotfixes
set PATHTOFIXES=C:\hotfixes\July\
TITLE Installing Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool v2.0
echo.
echo Installing windows-kb890830-v2.0.exe...
%PATHTOFIXES%\windows-kb890830-v2.0.exe /quiet 
echo.
echo Installing WindowsXP-KB951748-x86-ENU.exe...
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsXP-KB951748-x86-ENU.exe /quiet /norestart
echo.
echo Installing WindowsXP-KB951978-x86-ENU.exe...
%PATHTOFIXES%\WindowsXP-KB951978-x86-ENU.exe /quiet /norestart
echo.
PAUSE
EXIT

 

Copy the code into Notepad and save as Install.bat within C:\Hotfixes\July\

 

I hope this helps

[cookie_monster]

This might be of interest.

 

SP1 also cuts the size of the .NET Framework 3.5, which was tailored for Windows Vista, by 85 per cent to make it easier to download and run on Windows XP machines.

 

Microsoft promises SP 'milestone' for Visual Studio 2008 | The Register

 

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[Michael]

Interesting find, but I think Microsoft are simply trying to make it more manageable to install/deploy; but at the same time they're supplying only the essentials.

 

The full .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 beta weighs in at 230MB.