First post, by stuntman
This topic may not be placed on the right place in this forum but her is my dilema.
As updates and all security patches and all drivers for XP are about to get canceled for good, i decided to make myself a backup of all updatex/hotfixes/patches whaever you wanna call it. But, somewhere in process of searching for list of all updates i ran across some handy programs that do all the work for you. You just simply import "update list" in those programs and they download patches from that list. And that got almost all patches MS has on their website. Ok, im not into that, i want to have clean XP instalation disc and all updates aside so i can choose
what to install. So now somebody will say "install SP3 and that's it". I don't want too, there are so many updates in that SP that i really don't need or never use, so i just need to instal some of the security patches. Browsing through MS website you can see what updated are included in which SP.
Just to help you out :
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946480
Not going to count but id say hmm 500 of them ?
First question : Can i somehow download all of them but not compressed in i SP but individually (let's say a big *.RAR file ) with everything inside?
And that does not include downloading each one of them from MS site, filling that form so they send it to your email..Just too much work...
Second question : On that same MS page linked above you can see "For example, Windows XP SP3 contains all the fixes that are included in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). ". Hmm, i tried to cross reference few updates that are listed in SP2 and guess what, they do not appear in SP3? What is that all about? Shouldnt SP3 be an updated list of SP2 patches?
Question three: Somewhere on the MS site is also this page :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dn481339
Just to make even more confusion lets choose Microsoft Windows XP professional in the "product/component" menu.. You got 4 updates..What? 4? Then you switch to XP SP1 and you got 123. Same thing you switch to SP3 and SP3. I dont undestand this. What does it mean ?
Are this 123 patches (after selecting XP SP1) inside SP1 or are they released after SP1? If they were released after SP1 shouldnt they be in SP2, as service packs are cumulative?! Ok, other way around, if they were released after, for example let's look at SP3. It says 304 patches !
As the date is 11.3.2014 for the last hotfix I'll assume everything listed here is post that product you choose in menu. So, 304 patches after SP3.
But again, If they list 123 updates after SP1, shouldnt they just be in SP2 and not listed here? So When you select SP1 there should be list of SP2,SP3, and all updates after SP3.
Bit of help here please ?...Im confused and would really like to have all of the updates but i just can't see any logic in these lists...