From: bobnospam@gmail.com   
      
   On 6/23/2016 11:59 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   Can WSUS Offline still be used to get XP updates? Last time I ran it to   
   get updates for Win 7, there seemed to be no option to get XP updates or   
   Win 2000 updates   
      
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