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Dec. 10th, 2007 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogRemember what I said about not being able to install all the Windows updates on my desktop XP box because my volume license key stopped working?
Here are a couple of fantastically useful resources.
Windiz Update: A Firefox plugin that allows you to view and individually install or not install all of the Windows updates that are out there through it's own GUI and it's own patch repository. It does not require an ActiveX control and doesn't verify itself against your Windows install. The license states, though, that if you do not have a legal copy of Windows, you are not allowed to use this tool. I'll leave that to your discretion.
The Windows Update Downloader: Lets you download any or all patches for versions of Windows from 2000 to 2003 server, and archive them on your computer for installation on another computer, or even to be slipstreamed into installation source files (which you can do very easily, I'm told, with a program called nLite, a deployment tool for building custom unattended Windows installations.
Thanks, but no thanks Microsoft. I'll pass on Windows Update and get my patches elsewise. It's been fun.
Here are a couple of fantastically useful resources.
Windiz Update: A Firefox plugin that allows you to view and individually install or not install all of the Windows updates that are out there through it's own GUI and it's own patch repository. It does not require an ActiveX control and doesn't verify itself against your Windows install. The license states, though, that if you do not have a legal copy of Windows, you are not allowed to use this tool. I'll leave that to your discretion.
The Windows Update Downloader: Lets you download any or all patches for versions of Windows from 2000 to 2003 server, and archive them on your computer for installation on another computer, or even to be slipstreamed into installation source files (which you can do very easily, I'm told, with a program called nLite, a deployment tool for building custom unattended Windows installations.
Thanks, but no thanks Microsoft. I'll pass on Windows Update and get my patches elsewise. It's been fun.
