I assume you've done the posready registry patch already.

I did the posready thing on all of my XP machines and got all the updates, back when windows update worked. But afaik Microsoft later killed off automatic updates for anything less than Win7, because, well, it's Microsoft.

You might be able to get the updates from the catalog, but it's a tiresome process to get a list of them, download and install them manually one at a time.

I would assume that if you've done the edit, this method will get them.
Using Windows Update on 2000, XP, Vista in 2022

Repo Man11 wrote on 2024-01-28, 15:49:

I would assume that if you've done the edit, this method will get them.
Using Windows Update on 2000, XP, Vista in 2022

Robbbert wrote on 2024-01-28, 15:33:

I assume you've done the posready registry patch already.

I did the posready thing on all of my XP machines and got all the updates, back when windows update worked. But afaik Microsoft later killed off automatic updates for anything less than Win7, because, well, it's Microsoft.

You might be able to get the updates from the catalog, but it's a tiresome process to get a list of them, download and install them manually one at a time.

Whenever they cutoff the Update service I wasn't using XP anyway so I never updated. O don't know about any registry patch either.

The easiest way is https://legacyupdate.net/

That site is even intelligent enough to disable PosReady when the CPU of the system doesn't support SSE2.

I've had problems with legacyupdate - you have to install a program before you can get any updates, and that program changes your administrator password. I had to use an admin reset disk to regain access to my machine. Who knows whatever else that program did.

As for the registry patch:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady]
"Installed"=dword:00000001

Robbbert wrote on 2024-01-28, 21:55:

I've had problems with legacyupdate - you have to install a program before you can get any updates, and that program changes you […]
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I've had problems with legacyupdate - you have to install a program before you can get any updates, and that program changes your administrator password. I had to use an admin reset disk to regain access to my machine. Who knows whatever else that program did.

As for the registry patch:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady]
"Installed"=dword:00000001

schmatzler wrote on 2024-01-28, 18:41:

The easiest way is https://legacyupdate.net/

That site is even intelligent enough to disable PosReady when the CPU of the system doesn't support SSE2.

Okay I am installing the updates now, but after a restart the user no longer auto-logins. It just prompts me to choose a user (which is just one).

if I go to user account setting, I see a password-protected limited account named ASP.NET.

asp.net comes with .NET, and is only of use if you're a .NET developer. You can disable it if you want.

Robbbert wrote on 2024-01-29, 08:50:

asp.net comes with .NET, and is only of use if you're a .NET developer. You can disable it if you want.

Guessing it came with the MANDATORY .NET Framework installation? So I guess I will delete it.