Comments on: Windows Vista SP2

By: cmos

cmos — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:14:11 +0000

keep in mind you will have to edit the directory structure to where you have the updates located. for me i made a cmd file that lauches admin comd prompt on its own to deploy on my 3 comps so it makes it much faster and i must say nicer thanks to poster for making this great listing for us.

By: cmos

cmos — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:11:14 +0000

Simple way to deploy…..open notepad, copy this into it…
for /f %%A in (‘dir /b %WINDIR%\Setup\Updates\x86\*.*’) do (
%WINDIR%\system32\wusa.exe %WINDIR%\Setup\Updates\x86\%%A /quiet /norestart
)
now “save as” updates.bat or .cmd and make sure all files are choosen as save as type.
open cmd prompt as run as admin (right click on cmd prompt) now run bat or cmd file from its location and it will install all updates until finished.
note some updates req certain updates to be installed first so that is one reason why it will error the other way……this way it continues and picks up updates and then runs back through and installs any if needed….when done it will exit and u will have to reboot or just add shutdown /r to the end of bat file or cmd file and save it and when done it will auto reboot in 30 secs.
just trying to help others. thanks alot for this listing. it is great!

By: kf

kf — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:59:14 +0000

Aaron, thank you for your reply. If that is the case, I wonder whether Microsoft will reinstate the hotfix, or it is just an unnecessary update. Your list of Windows hotfixes has been very helpful indeed, Aaron. Keep up the good work!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:41:58 +0000

Hi, I just verified that the link is correct. The download must have been taken down by MS.

By: kf

kf — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:10:19 +0000

Why isn’t hotfix KB 2264107 available for download? Is there a problem for the direct link for this hotfix?

By: Tech Blog of RR – rricketts.com » Hotfixes for Windows

Tech Blog of RR – rricketts.com » Hotfixes for Windows — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:17:26 +0000

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By: etempest

etempest — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:10:56 +0000

Experimenting around with it, I notice some patches work, other’s do not. From what I can tell (not sure if I’m correct), if it comes across an update it doesn’t like, it stops processing any patches and finishes the install. The trick would be to find which one’s stop it, and which one’s actually do work. That method is very time consuming, Windows 7 may be as not so bad with it’s quick install, and lack of massive updates.

Thank you for that link on WAIK, I do think it’s the best route to go, but felt in the past it was a bit daunting to figure out, that guide is very good.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:51:41 +0000

Yeah, that was a feature that I saw mentioned in an article by one Paul Thurrott (dump all of the hotfixes into an “updates” folder on the DVD), but upon further reading and experimentation, I don’t think it actually works. If it really is that simple, let me know, and I’ll try it again.

I find that since new hotfixes usually come out every other week, it’s too much of a hassle to keep an “up to date” DVD. So these days, I just install using a regular Vista SP2 DVD, and then update the machine using the command prompt method that I have up on the top of this page.

Maybe if you were deploying a lot of machines at once, it would help to have an install DVD with all of the hotfixes integrated. So, here is a guide on integrating hotfixes using WAIK.

By: etempest

etempest — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:11:13 +0000

Great Site, and appreciate the work you put in to it.
On the old site, there were instructions where if you can alter the vista iso, you can create a folder and put updates in to it, and vista will pick them up and install them automatically. Do you still have those instructions?

By: Flashorn

Flashorn — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:29:48 +0000

Thanks Aaron for this service. I have sent countless people here after learning that their update module was not working properly . So until we fixed the problem , I had them download and install those missing hotfixes to keep their Windows safer.

Again thanks for hard work.

Flashorn.