Computer down for nine months; need fast way to download updatesfor that time over dial-up

I suppose it would be ideal if I could borrow someone's DSL connection.
However, I doubt that will happen. As it would happen, I am
thinking of replacing my existing boot partition with a new one with a
fresh XP Pro SP1 (what I have on CD). It would take me even longer to
update via Microsoft Update. Is there a way to copy the downloads that
Microsoft Update has already made to the new partition? That would help.
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Will Pittenger wrote:
> I suppose it would be ideal if I could borrow someone's DSL
> connection. However, I doubt that will happen. As it would
> happen, I am thinking of replacing my existing boot partition with a new
> one with a
> fresh XP Pro SP1 (what I have on CD). It would take me even longer to
> update via Microsoft Update. Is there a way to copy the downloads
> that Microsoft Update has already made to the new partition? That
> would help. ------
> Will Pittenger
> [will dot pittenger at globespeed dot com]
> Send large attachments to [will dot pittenger 1 at gmail dot com]
> My homepage (which includes links to all of my sites):
> http://will.pittenger1.googlepages.com/home

Yes. On the win update site, go to the catalog instead of the updates and
download them separately to your hard drive.

Forget that. What about the stuff I already downloaded? If I have to
download it anyway, I might as well just use the new partition and
Microsoft Update like normal.

Poprivet wrote:
> Will Pittenger wrote:
>> I suppose it would be ideal if I could borrow someone's DSL
>> connection. However, I doubt that will happen. As it would
>> happen, I am thinking of replacing my existing boot partition with a new
>> one with a
>> fresh XP Pro SP1 (what I have on CD). It would take me even longer to
>> update via Microsoft Update. Is there a way to copy the downloads
>> that Microsoft Update has already made to the new partition? That
>> would help. ------
>> Will Pittenger
>> [will dot pittenger at globespeed dot com]
>> Send large attachments to [will dot pittenger 1 at gmail dot com]
>> My homepage (which includes links to all of my sites):
>> http://will.pittenger1.googlepages.com/home
>
> Yes. On the win update site, go to the catalog instead of the updates and
> download them separately to your hard drive.
>
>

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Will Pittenger
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Send large attachments to [will dot pittenger 1 at gmail dot com]
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Will Pittenger wrote:

> Forget that. What about the stuff I already downloaded? If I have to
> download it anyway, I might as well just use the new partition and
> Microsoft Update like normal.
>
>

Sure, if they are already downloaded as files. Probably one easy way
is to burn the update files, both old and newly-downloaded, to CD or
copy, as proposed, to the new partition. Next, write a script file to
do the updating. There is a Microsoft KB article on how to write this
script file.

Because I don't need to update many computers on a LAN, I don't do this.
Even when I had multiple computers, it was only two. So I just
updated them seperately. Back then, I had DSL anyway.

GHalleck wrote:
>
> Will Pittenger wrote:
>
>> Forget that. What about the stuff I already downloaded? If I have to
>> download it anyway, I might as well just use the new partition and
>> Microsoft Update like normal.
>>
>>
>
> Sure, if they are already downloaded as files. Probably one easy way
> is to burn the update files, both old and newly-downloaded, to CD or
> copy, as proposed, to the new partition. Next, write a script file to
> do the updating. There is a Microsoft KB article on how to write this
> script file.

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Will Pittenger
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Send large attachments to [will dot pittenger 1 at gmail dot com]
My homepage (which includes links to all of my sites):
http://will.pittenger1.googlepages.com/home

Will Pittenger wrote:
> Because I don't need to update many computers on a LAN, I don't do
> this. Even when I had multiple computers, it was only two. So I just
> updated them seperately. Back then, I had DSL anyway.
>
> GHalleck wrote:
>>
>> Will Pittenger wrote:
>>
>>> Forget that. What about the stuff I already downloaded? If I have
>>> to download it anyway, I might as well just use the new partition
>>> and Microsoft Update like normal.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Sure, if they are already downloaded as files. Probably one easy way
>> is to burn the update files, both old and newly-downloaded, to CD or
>> copy, as proposed, to the new partition. Next, write a script file to
>> do the updating. There is a Microsoft KB article on how to write this
>> script file.

It's your short sightedness then.