Disconnected Windows Update

Is there a way to download all updates for a particular flavor of
windows, i.e. Windows 98, in order to update a system that is not
connected to the internet.
I did find a way to download individual updates, but each update was
placed in a seperate directory and I believe I had to run each update
manually.
What I want is to download all updates, copy them onto a system and
then run auto update that will apply all updates.

is there such an animal ?

thanks for your help

john

you can download your updates from the Windows Update Catalog, which is
different from the Windows Update Site in that you can direct your updates
to the location of your choice.
Go to the update site as you normally would, but then look in the pane on
the right and fins administrator settings..I think it's called that..I don't
have the update site open for reference.
Anyway, click on that, then look for the blue link that says Windows Update
Catalog.
You will see that it is set up a bit differently than what your are used to.
You have to pick your os version, the types of updates your are looking for,
etc.
Once you get to that point you can download them to a folder of your choice
and install them at your leisure.
Then, I would imagine that you would have to copy them to cd, and install
them on the pc that has no internet connection.
"coltrane" <> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to download all updates for a particular flavor of
> windows, i.e. Windows 98, in order to update a system that is not
> connected to the internet.
> I did find a way to download individual updates, but each update was
> placed in a seperate directory and I believe I had to run each update
> manually.
> What I want is to download all updates, copy them onto a system and
> then run auto update that will apply all updates.
>
> is there such an animal ?
>
> thanks for your help
>
> john
>

Thank you for your help.
Do you know of a way to perform a single update from the downloaded
files?
I did download the updates to a directory, but it seemed that each
update was in it's own directory. Also, I had to perform each update
manually. I would like to be able to run an un-attended update or at
least be able to add and remove in the same way as the online update
provides.

thanks again for your help

john

there are some ms software packages that I believe will do this.
The updates are located in one directory, but each are listed separately.
Since the pc with no internet does not have the ability to download updates,
it cannot, therefore be set to install them automatically without a program
designed to do that.
However, If you are asking in reference to win98, I'm going to have to dig a
bit deeper.
I don't know of any first hand, but a quick 'Google' might.
You can always remove updates, no matter how they were placed on your pc.
Depending on the type, they will be listed in Add/Remove, or you can find
them in the WU folder in your C: drive, or other various places.


"coltrane" <> wrote in message
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> Thank you for your help.
> Do you know of a way to perform a single update from the downloaded
> files?
> I did download the updates to a directory, but it seemed that each
> update was in it's own directory. Also, I had to perform each update
> manually. I would like to be able to run an un-attended update or at
> least be able to add and remove in the same way as the online update
> provides.
>
> thanks again for your help
>
> john
>

Another thing you can check into is creating a batch file to do what you
want.. I have no experience with that at all. but copy this into your
search bar, I use Google.

batch file to install multiple windows updates


"lvee" <> wrote in message
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> there are some ms software packages that I believe will do this.
> The updates are located in one directory, but each are listed separately.
> Since the pc with no internet does not have the ability to download
> updates, it cannot, therefore be set to install them automatically without
> a program designed to do that.
> However, If you are asking in reference to win98, I'm going to have to dig
> a bit deeper.
> I don't know of any first hand, but a quick 'Google' might.
> You can always remove updates, no matter how they were placed on your pc.
> Depending on the type, they will be listed in Add/Remove, or you can find
> them in the WU folder in your C: drive, or other various places.
>
>
> "coltrane" <> wrote in message
> news: ps.com...
>> Thank you for your help.
>> Do you know of a way to perform a single update from the downloaded
>> files?
>> I did download the updates to a directory, but it seemed that each
>> update was in it's own directory. Also, I had to perform each update
>> manually. I would like to be able to run an un-attended update or at
>> least be able to add and remove in the same way as the online update
>> provides.
>>
>> thanks again for your help
>>
>> john
>>
>
>

thanks

sounds good