From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk
In message , Good Guy
writes
>On 23/06/2016 08:30, Steve Hayes wrote:
> As as Microsoft is no longer supporting XP, will those updates
> still work?
>
>You can still download all the updates that were officially released by
>Microsoft. Your first task is to make sure you install SP3. Now this
>only installs if, and only if, you have SP1 already installed. If you
>don't have SP1 on your machine then you'll first need to download
>and install SP1 or you could slip-stream SP3 to your version of XP
>and then install from this new disk.
>Of course, you need to learn how to slip-stream and it takes time
>and it requires an external tool to create bootable Media.
>Finally, I hope you are on unmetered connection because
>downloading all these updates and Service packs will inevitable eat
>up your monthly quota. Dial-up won't work so don't even try it.
>Hope this helps.
As well as the 'traditional' method - ie letting MS do the updates in
its own good time (which can take a while), you can speed things up if,
after getting the basic installation disk stuff installed, you use
either WSUS Offline Update
http://tinyurl.com/oommay2
http://download.wsusoffline.net/
[Make sure you use the correct version for XP. The last version for XP
is V9.2.1]
or
Windows XP Service Pack 4 Unofficial
http://tinyurl.com/hptjpbn
among many other sources.
Both provide all the necessary updates (I don't think you even need to
start with SP1) - including IE6 to IE8. However, after they are
finished, there will still be quite a few of the very latest online
updates to do. For these, you will probably need to install Windows
Update Agent. I think this site is suitable:
http://tinyurl.com/gre5nxe
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