Transferring updates to a new installation

[Mike Crooke]

Hi Everyone,

I have an XP Pro machine that I always keep up to date with the latest
updates. Another machine has just been reformatted and XP Pro reinstalled
from the original CD.

Is there any way that I can copy/transfer the updates from my "up to date"
machine to my newly installed machine. I really don't want to have to
download all the updates again. Here in South Africa bandwidth is quite
limited and connections are rather slow.

I also have a Vista machine that I will need to do something similar very
soon so if the same thing applies to that I would be grateful.

Many thanks for the help
Mike

[Shenan Stanley]

Reliably - no. If you got the updates through automatic updates or even the
web page - they are on your computer, but not in any format you would be
used to and/or that you might even find useful.

If the freshly formatted Windows XP computer is at least to the SP1 level,
you could download just SP3 and have a huge chunk of the updates done in one
fell swoop. That's not to say there is still not a significant number of
updates after SP3 - but the hundreds you install with just the installation
of SP3 is nice.

If it is not to SP1 level - download SP2 and SP3 and install them in that
order.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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[Stefan Kanthak]

"Shenan Stanley" <newsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike Crooke wrote:

>> Is there any way that I can copy/transfer the updates from my "up
>> to date" machine to my newly installed machine. I really don't
>> want to have to download all the updates again. Here in South
>> Africa bandwidth is quite limited and connections are rather slow.

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[...]

> If the freshly formatted Windows XP computer is at least to the SP1 level,
> you could download just SP3 and have a huge chunk of the updates done in one
> fell swoop. That's not to say there is still not a significant number of
> updates after SP3 - but the hundreds you install with just the installation
> of SP3 is nice.
>
> If it is not to SP1 level - download SP2 and SP3 and install them in that
> order.

Download and installation of the smaller SP1 and then SP3 achieves but the
same result and saves quite some time and bandwidth in that case!
Ordering an SP3 CD-ROM from Microsoft can also be a viable alternative.

Stefan

[Mike Crooke]

Thanks very much to both Stefan and Shenan. All the updates were via windows
update. I lived in hope for a while.....

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

No.

NB: Computers running WinXP SP2 will NOT be offered any further critical
security updates, Automatic Updates will cease to function, and Windows
Update website will not be available after 12 April 2010 until and unless
SP3 is installed.

HOW TO get a computer running WinXP Gold (no Service Packs) fully patched
(after a clean install)
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/msg/3f5afa8ed33e121c

HOW TO get a computer running WinXP SP1(a) or SP2 fully patched (after a
clean install)
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/a066ae41add7dd2b
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