Windows ME Update Order

I have Windows ME on my computer and recently had to go to the recovery CD
and reformat my hard drive. Now everything is back to normal, but I lost all
of the Windows Updates that have been installed since I purchased the
computer. I have read the threads about install order becoming a problem and
making people install updates multiple times without success. I am hoping to
avoid this problem. So I was wondering if there is a comprehensive list of
which order to install the updates. I have 31 updates to install (23
critical and 8 wWindows ME), dating back to the middle of 2001. Can anyone
help???

Thank you very much for your time.

Dan

X-post to WinME General

Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time to
address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
headaches:

Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?

If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP

dannydud0828 wrote:
> I have Windows ME on my computer and recently had to go to the recovery CD
> and reformat my hard drive. Now everything is back to normal, but I lost
> all of the Windows Updates that have been installed since I purchased the
> computer. I have read the threads about install order becoming a problem
> and making people install updates multiple times without success. I am
> hoping to avoid this problem. So I was wondering if there is a
> comprehensive list of which order to install the updates. I have 31
> updates to install (23 critical and 8 wWindows ME), dating back to the
> middle of 2001. Can anyone help???

PA Bear wrote:
> X-post to WinME General
>
> Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
> to address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
> headaches:
>
> Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?
>
> If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

I believe he did say he wiped the drive. Most vendors provide a utility
to cleanly remove everything from the drive by doing a low-level write
to test the drive. This destroys all data on the computer and cleans
the drive.

James

Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup.
Thanks.

Yes, he /said/ he reformatted but I just wanted to make sure everything's
hunky-dory before he gets lost in updating.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP


James Kosin wrote:
> PA Bear wrote:
> > X-post to WinME General
> >
> > Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
> > to address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
> > headaches:
> >
> > Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?
> >
> > If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?
>
> I believe he did say he wiped the drive. Most vendors provide a utility
> to cleanly remove everything from the drive by doing a low-level write
> to test the drive. This destroys all data on the computer and cleans
> the drive.
>
> James

I undertook a similar exercise with a clean WinMe installation earlier this
year and assuming Danny intends to update from the WU site, then just let WU
follow its own sequence.

The WU seems to set its own order and will advise what can or what cannot be
downloaded in a single session. Some updates (IE6 - I think) may require a
reboot before the next update can proceed. But a warning notice will be
shown. WU generally leads the user by the hand so there shouldn't be a
problem.

N.B. Some of those critical updates take care of themselves and so the
actual count becomes somewhat less than the expected 30+ updates.

If Danny has access to broadband, then it will speed things up, but its all
worth it in the end <g>

Mart



"PA Bear" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the
> newsgroup. Thanks.
>
> Yes, he /said/ he reformatted but I just wanted to make sure everything's
> hunky-dory before he gets lost in updating.
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP
>
>
> James Kosin wrote:
>> PA Bear wrote:
>> > X-post to WinME General
>> >
>> > Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time
>> > to address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
>> > headaches:
>> >
>> > Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?
>> >
>> > If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?
>>
>> I believe he did say he wiped the drive. Most vendors provide a utility
>> to cleanly remove everything from the drive by doing a low-level write
>> to test the drive. This destroys all data on the computer and cleans
>> the drive.
>>
>> James
>

If at all possible, install the most recent updates first. You can
often judge that by the KB number. And, the items listed after a full
scan will usually show the most recent at the top of the list.

I recommend you pick the top 5, install those, Restart, and then work
your way down the list 5 at a time.


--

....Sky

Tom "Sky" King
=============

dannydud0828 wrote:
> I have Windows ME on my computer and recently had to go to the
> recovery CD and reformat my hard drive. Now everything is back to
> normal, but I lost all of the Windows Updates that have been
> installed since I purchased the computer. I have read the threads
> about install order becoming a problem and making people install
> updates multiple times without success. I am hoping to avoid this
> problem. So I was wondering if there is a comprehensive list of
> which order to install the updates. I have 31 updates to install (23
> critical and 8 wWindows ME), dating back to the middle of 2001. Can
> anyone help???

PA Bear wrote:
> Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the
> newsgroup. Thanks.

Actually, please don't. Only quote the material from prior post(s) that
actually relate to the answer you are typing. There is no need to quote
the entire thread in each-n-every post within a thread, and many reasons
not to do that. Especially when a thread gets long or when there is
extraneous material in prior posts. Thanks.

--

....Sky

Tom "Sky" King
=============

Sky King wrote:
> PA Bear wrote:
> > Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the
> > newsgroup. Thanks.
>
> Actually, please don't. Only quote the material from prior post(s) that
> actually relate to the answer you are typing. There is no need to quote
> the entire thread in each-n-every post within a thread, and many reasons
> not to do that. Especially when a thread gets long or when there is
> extraneous material in prior posts.

I'd rather they post with excessive quoting than no quoting at all.

"PA Bear" wrote:

> X-post to WinME General
>
> Before proceeding further with installing updates, please take the time to
> address the following questions. Doing so might save you a lot of
> headaches:
>
> Prior to reinstalling WinME, had you installed IE6 SP1?
>
> If so, did you uninstall IE6 before reinstalling WinME?

Yes, I had installed SP1. I did not uninstall IE6 prior to reinstalling
WinME. I reformatted the hard drive because I could not get the computer to
work at all, so wiped it clean in order to at least have a working computer.

The reason I am asking this is becuase I have had this problem before. I
formatted my hard drive, leaving me with 5 years worth of windows updates to
install. One would think that I could let windows update do its thing and
that it would install the updates in the proper order. WRONG!! This leaves
me in the position where I have installed every update and every day windows
tells me that I have 1 particular update that needs installing. When I go to
similar discussions like this one, they tell me that I have installed the
updates in the wrong order. An example would be having update 2 installed
before update 1 makes update 1 not install properly. This is why I am here.
Instead of checking them all and letting windows install them in its own
order (which does not work - I believe I have read hundreds of posts on this
forum in which this is the problem), I thought I would install them 1 by 1 in
the porper order saving me lots of headaches later. I also read the post
saying to look at the update numbers, and install them in order. Some of the
updates are numbered with a 6 digit number, some are numbered with a Q and a
6 dgit number. Am I to install from low to high, Q's first, or Q's last??
There HAS to be a schedule or a list somewhere where someone can simply tell
me install this update 1st, then this update 2nd, then this update 3rd and so
on. Windows does not do this properly by itself.

Again thank you for your time!!!!!

Dan

This method of installing the most recent does not work. Sometimes
installing update 15 is dependent on installing update 9 first. Of course,
numbers are just made up, but you get the idea. If it was this simple, I
would have already done it and never have wasted the time to post here.

"Sky King" wrote:

> If at all possible, install the most recent updates first. You can
> often judge that by the KB number. And, the items listed after a full
> scan will usually show the most recent at the top of the list.
>
> I recommend you pick the top 5, install those, Restart, and then work
> your way down the list 5 at a time.
>
>
> --
>
> ....Sky
>
> Tom "Sky" King
> =============