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Rats! MS Auto Updates Got Me Again!
Josh:
I prefer to rely on patches from the source. I figure MS knows which patches are meant for the public. I've seen too many users who feel they have to have EVERY patch when certain ones are designed to fix a specific issue which is not affecting their machines.
ak_:
I never had any problem with MS updates either. On the other hand, i got bit by a dog in the street on Christmas night once.
Josh:
That was the fault of MS Patch 918231 "Random dog bites might occur if you run calculator at the same time as either notepad or excel".
mahesh2k:
Anyone tried Autopatcher XP? :huh:
40hz:
Anyone tried Autopatcher XP? :huh:
-mahesh2k (October 21, 2008, 09:53 AM)
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Yes. It works as advertised, although I've heard from some people it caused problems. I've never run into any. :Thmbsup:
You might also want out check out Heise Security's ct-offline-updater.
There's a good English intro about it here:
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Do-it-yourself-Service-Pack--/features/80682
The article is a bit old, but the program itself is regularly updated. Version 5 has now handles products through Windows Server 2008. It supports both 32 and 64-bit product versions and has multiple options for generating CD/DVD images.
Download link is here:
http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/offlineupdate/download_uk.shtml
This is the utility I use. :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
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