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Hi,
Thanks group, for answers to my browser question. NEW Question. I am a disabled person and because I worked for a disabled person's charity, as a perk, I have a full set of Microsoft product keys circa 2010. My WinXP install DVD is even older. When I used it on this VM, and activated it legally, I was able to download all updates. I have a netbook which is ergonomically perfect. I have been using it with an external USB drive partitioned with various linux flavors. Now I wish to repair again, with a third internal SSD. WinXP would be perfect to install internally. Rather than start from scratch, I'd like to ask if there is a full and complete WinXP install .iso with all updates, that I could download. I can do torrent. Thanks in advance. BTW, Windows is better than linux on an SSD. 1) the pagefile can be relocated, so wear does not happen in the same place. 2) There is file system error checking. 3) the page file can be turned off with little side effect because it has 1.5 GB RAM. |
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Whoops. I should have said I prefer WinXP Pro.
"Norm X" wrote Hi, Thanks group, for answers to my browser question. NEW Question. I am a disabled person and because I worked for a disabled person's charity, as a perk, I have a full set of Microsoft product keys circa 2010. My WinXP install DVD is even older. When I used it on this VM, and activated it legally, I was able to download all updates. I have a netbook which is ergonomically perfect. I have been using it with an external USB drive partitioned with various linux flavors. Now I wish to repair again, with a third internal SSD. WinXP would be perfect to install internally. Rather than start from scratch, I'd like to ask if there is a full and complete WinXP install .iso with all updates, that I could download. I can do torrent. Thanks in advance. BTW, Windows is better than linux on an SSD. 1) the pagefile can be relocated, so wear does not happen in the same place. 2) There is file system error checking. 3) the page file can be turned off with little side effect because it has 1.5 GB RAM. |
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:52:23 -0800, "Norm X"
wrote: Hi, Thanks group, for answers to my browser question. NEW Question. I am a disabled person and because I worked for a disabled person's charity, as a perk, I have a full set of Microsoft product keys circa 2010. My WinXP install DVD is even older. When I used it on this VM, and activated it legally, I was able to download all updates. I have a netbook which is ergonomically perfect. I have been using it with an external USB drive partitioned with various linux flavors. Now I wish to repair again, with a third internal SSD. WinXP would be perfect to install internally. Rather than start from scratch, I'd like to ask if there is a full and complete WinXP install .iso with all updates, that I could download. I can do torrent. Thanks in advance. BTW, Windows is better than linux on an SSD. 1) the pagefile can be relocated, so wear does not happen in the same place. 2) There is file system error checking. 3) the page file can be turned off with little side effect because it has 1.5 GB RAM. I wondered about this myself. I usually load whatever I have handy, then lay SP3 on top of it and let Microsoft send me the 100+ updates. I haven't tried it but I wondered if I could just copy over all the update files and load them. |
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Paul,
Wouldn't this be WAIK/Sysprep material ? I've taken a look at the tutorial you provided a link to, but it mentions explicitily that its usage is for systems with an identical configuration. AFAIK that means that any hardware differences will not be tolerated. But than again, I may be wrong there ... A technique called "slipstreaming" might be what is needed. When I googeled for "XP slipstream updates" the whole first page looks promising, so enough information/tutorials to choose from. :-) Regards, Rudy Wieser -- Origional message: Paul schreef in berichtnieuws ... wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:52:23 -0800, "Norm X" wrote: Hi, Thanks group, for answers to my browser question. NEW Question. I am a disabled person and because I worked for a disabled person's charity, as a perk, I have a full set of Microsoft product keys circa 2010. My WinXP install DVD is even older. When I used it on this VM, and activated it legally, I was able to download all updates. I have a netbook which is ergonomically perfect. I have been using it with an external USB drive partitioned with various linux flavors. Now I wish to repair again, with a third internal SSD. WinXP would be perfect to install internally. Rather than start from scratch, I'd like to ask if there is a full and complete WinXP install .iso with all updates, that I could download. I can do torrent. Thanks in advance. BTW, Windows is better than linux on an SSD. 1) the pagefile can be relocated, so wear does not happen in the same place. 2) There is file system error checking. 3) the page file can be turned off with little side effect because it has 1.5 GB RAM. I wondered about this myself. I usually load whatever I have handy, then lay SP3 on top of it and let Microsoft send me the 100+ updates. I haven't tried it but I wondered if I could just copy over all the update files and load them. Wouldn't this be WAIK/Sysprep material ? I've never experimented, but I think IT technicians build up systems the way they like them, then "re-seal" them for distribution. Perhaps an approach like that will give a pre-patched OS ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysprep Example of a tutorial. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...se-sysprep-to- create-a-windows-xp-image/ Paul |
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R.Wieser wrote:
Paul, Wouldn't this be WAIK/Sysprep material ? I've taken a look at the tutorial you provided a link to, but it mentions explicitily that its usage is for systems with an identical configuration. AFAIK that means that any hardware differences will not be tolerated. But than again, I may be wrong there ... A technique called "slipstreaming" might be what is needed. When I googeled for "XP slipstream updates" the whole first page looks promising, so enough information/tutorials to choose from. :-) Regards, Rudy Wieser Yes, that might work, as long as all of the stuff you download from Windows Update for the job, is in a format suitable for the purpose. Wsusoffline might work too, but you're not getting every possible Windows Update offering that way. That might give you security updates. And you'd need an older version. I collected a copy of Wsusoffline at the time, and prepared a USB stick with a WinXP folder on it. The current version, might no longer have WinXP as an option. You get security updates, but you might not get optional updates. So if you were expecting a TimeZone update file, that might not be in the Wsusoffline collection. Paul |
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 08:11:38 -0000, Paul wrote:
wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:52:23 -0800, "Norm X" wrote: Hi, Thanks group, for answers to my browser question. NEW Question. I am a disabled person and because I worked for a disabled person's charity, as a perk, I have a full set of Microsoft product keys circa 2010. My WinXP install DVD is even older. When I used it on this VM, and activated it legally, I was able to download all updates. I have a netbook which is ergonomically perfect. I have been using it with an external USB drive partitioned with various linux flavors. Now I wish to repair again, with a third internal SSD. WinXP would be perfect to install internally. Rather than start from scratch, I'd like to ask if there is a full and complete WinXP install .iso with all updates, that I could download. I can do torrent. Thanks in advance. BTW, Windows is better than linux on an SSD. 1) the pagefile can be relocated, so wear does not happen in the same place. 2) There is file system error checking. 3) the page file can be turned off with little side effect because it has 1.5 GB RAM. I wondered about this myself. I usually load whatever I have handy, then lay SP3 on top of it and let Microsoft send me the 100+ updates. I haven't tried it but I wondered if I could just copy over all the update files and load them. Wouldn't this be WAIK/Sysprep material ? I've never experimented, but I think IT technicians build up systems the way they like them, then "re-seal" them for distribution. Perhaps an approach like that will give a pre-patched OS ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysprep Example of a tutorial. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...dows-xp-image/ Paul You'd think someone would have made one already. Though getting a valid torrent might be tricky these days. -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug |
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 03:11:38 -0500, Paul wrote:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...dows-xp-image/ Paul Thanks Paul, That is good to know |
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On 02/17/2016 02:11 AM, Paul wrote:
wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 21:52:23 -0800, "Norm X" wrote: Hi, Thanks group, for answers to my browser question. NEW Question. I am a disabled person and because I worked for a disabled person's charity, as a perk, I have a full set of Microsoft product keys circa 2010. My WinXP install DVD is even older. When I used it on this VM, and activated it legally, I was able to download all updates. I have a netbook which is ergonomically perfect. I have been using it with an external USB drive partitioned with various linux flavors. Now I wish to repair again, with a third internal SSD. WinXP would be perfect to install internally. Rather than start from scratch, I'd like to ask if there is a full and complete WinXP install .iso with all updates, that I could download. I can do torrent. Thanks in advance. BTW, Windows is better than linux on an SSD. 1) the pagefile can be relocated, so wear does not happen in the same place. 2) There is file system error checking. 3) the page file can be turned off with little side effect because it has 1.5 GB RAM. I wondered about this myself. I usually load whatever I have handy, then lay SP3 on top of it and let Microsoft send me the 100+ updates. I haven't tried it but I wondered if I could just copy over all the update files and load them. Wouldn't this be WAIK/Sysprep material ? I've never experimented, but I think IT technicians build up systems the way they like them, then "re-seal" them for distribution. Perhaps an approach like that will give a pre-patched OS ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysprep Example of a tutorial. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/win...dows-xp-image/ Paul I once took an XP cd and used a slipstream utility of some sort to create new install media with at least most of the updates already installed. Once I got a high speed connection however, to just let the thing update on it;s own seemed like it was no big deal though |
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Paul wrote:
R.Wieser wrote: Paul, Wouldn't this be WAIK/Sysprep material ? I've taken a look at the tutorial you provided a link to, but it mentions explicitily that its usage is for systems with an identical configuration. AFAIK that means that any hardware differences will not be tolerated. But than again, I may be wrong there ... A technique called "slipstreaming" might be what is needed. When I googeled for "XP slipstream updates" the whole first page looks promising, so enough information/tutorials to choose from. :-) Regards, Rudy Wieser Yes, that might work, as long as all of the stuff you download from Windows Update for the job, is in a format suitable for the purpose. Wsusoffline might work too, but you're not getting every possible Windows Update offering that way. That might give you security updates. And you'd need an older version. I collected a copy of Wsusoffline at the time, and prepared a USB stick with a WinXP folder on it. The current version, might no longer have WinXP as an option. You get security updates, but you might not get optional updates. So if you were expecting a TimeZone update file, that might not be in the Wsusoffline collection. I tried slipstreaming XP using all the updates I could download from MS and install from WSUS. Even after slipstreaming everything I could get into it from MS, and running WSUS several times, I still had to run windows update a few times before it ran out of things to install. The result was better than anything I had before, but not what I was aiming for. If you find a download that claims to be everything - watch out! It may be infected. |
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Bob,
Even after slipstreaming everything I could get into it from MS, and running WSUS several times, I still had to run windows update a few times before it ran out of things to install. The result was better than anything I had before, but not what I was aiming for. And what happened when you made a new slip-streamed ISO, but now including those later updates too ? The reason of what you describe is that your computer does not autonmatically downloads *all* updates. It instead tries to figure out what you need, and only downloads that. Ofcourse, that update changes things, sometimes causing the updater to find another spot where an another, later, update could be placed. But this also poses a problem: the way you retrieve updates means you only get the ones your current system needs. Which may not be all the available updates ... In other words, to create a slipstream with all updates you might need to download the updates from the MS server by hand (so you get all, and not only the ones applicable to your current machine). Regards, Rudy Wieser -- Origional message: Bob F schreef in berichtnieuws ... Paul wrote: R.Wieser wrote: Paul, Wouldn't this be WAIK/Sysprep material ? I've taken a look at the tutorial you provided a link to, but it mentions explicitily that its usage is for systems with an identical configuration. AFAIK that means that any hardware differences will not be tolerated. But than again, I may be wrong there ... A technique called "slipstreaming" might be what is needed. When I googeled for "XP slipstream updates" the whole first page looks promising, so enough information/tutorials to choose from. :-) Regards, Rudy Wieser Yes, that might work, as long as all of the stuff you download from Windows Update for the job, is in a format suitable for the purpose. Wsusoffline might work too, but you're not getting every possible Windows Update offering that way. That might give you security updates. And you'd need an older version. I collected a copy of Wsusoffline at the time, and prepared a USB stick with a WinXP folder on it. The current version, might no longer have WinXP as an option. You get security updates, but you might not get optional updates. So if you were expecting a TimeZone update file, that might not be in the Wsusoffline collection. I tried slipstreaming XP using all the updates I could download from MS and install from WSUS. Even after slipstreaming everything I could get into it from MS, and running WSUS several times, I still had to run windows update a few times before it ran out of things to install. The result was better than anything I had before, but not what I was aiming for. If you find a download that claims to be everything - watch out! It may be infected. |
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R.Wieser wrote:
Bob, Even after slipstreaming everything I could get into it from MS, and running WSUS several times, I still had to run windows update a few times before it ran out of things to install. The result was better than anything I had before, but not what I was aiming for. And what happened when you made a new slip-streamed ISO, but now including those later updates too ? It seemed that some updates wouldn't slipstream in, and some were not available for seperate download. I lost interest in the project. |
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