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I have "intermediate (what ever that means) computer experience. At present,
I do not have a personal problem to post. I do however, have a friend that uses a dial-up connection that needs to get copies of Microsoft's SP3 and the various updates that have come out. I personally use MSN with fairly fast downloads. How can I download everything (files, updates, ????) that he will need in case he has to ever reformat his hard drive? I have an external HD for my personal computers but he does not want to have to buy an external HD, soooo, what are his/my options? Appreciate any help you all can send my way. Thanks, Nosleepfred |
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Nosleepfred schreef:
I have "intermediate (what ever that means) computer experience. At present, I do not have a personal problem to post. I do however, have a friend that uses a dial-up connection that needs to get copies of Microsoft's SP3 and the various updates that have come out. I personally use MSN with fairly fast downloads. How can I download everything (files, updates, ????) that he will need in case he has to ever reformat his hard drive? I have an external HD for my personal computers but he does not want to have to buy an external HD, soooo, what are his/my options? Appreciate any help you all can send my way. Thanks, Nosleepfred Back it up on YOUR external HD? Seriously, if he doesn't want to invest in a cheap external HD, how can he ever make backups? And if he stores the backups on the same HD, he'll risk a HD failure, which will also come to him sooner or later, even if you make different partitions. So buy a cheap external HD. I also invested a little money into Acronis software, that works great for me so far. It is able to complely backup your HD without much hassle. (No, I don't work for them) Regards, Erwin Moller -- "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -- C.A.R. Hoare |
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Nosleepfred wrote:
I have "intermediate (what ever that means) computer experience. At present, I do not have a personal problem to post. I do however, have a friend that uses a dial-up connection that needs to get copies of Microsoft's SP3 and the various updates that have come out. I personally use MSN with fairly fast downloads. How can I download everything (files, updates, ????) that he will need in case he has to ever reformat his hard drive? I have an external HD for my personal computers but he does not want to have to buy an external HD, soooo, what are his/my options? Appreciate any help you all can send my way. Thanks, Nosleepfred You can download Windows XP SP3 and burn it to a CD. I'm sure he has a CD that works. This will bring his PC somewhat up to date. You can even download Windows Media Player 11 and IE 7 if you want as they are optional installs beyond SP3. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en And it depends on what original XP CD he has if you need SP1a or SP2 before SP3. If he has XP Gold, meaning the original XP with Zero patches, then you need at least SP1a or SP2 before SP3. All of these can be found on www.microsoft.com downloads. But the updates after SP3 you could try to download but I don't think its logical. I think he can just go them over the dial up. There is also the point of Drivers for his PC. But one would have to know his PC make and model first. He should have his XP cd as well as all the drivers from the original manufacturer. I got all of my dell drivers on a CD from them when mine was bought, and have even downloaded them from the dell site. But that's me. |
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"Nosleepfred" wrote: I have "intermediate (what ever that means) computer experience. At present, I do not have a personal problem to post. I do however, have a friend that uses a dial-up connection that needs to get copies of Microsoft's SP3 and the various updates that have come out. I personally use MSN with fairly fast downloads. How can I download everything (files, updates, ????) that he will need in case he has to ever reformat his hard drive? I have an external HD for my personal computers but he does not want to have to buy an external HD, soooo, what are his/my options? Appreciate any help you all can send my way. Thanks, Nosleepfred Hello, It is also possible,(besides downloading SP3), to have Microsoft send a SP3 disc, there is only a charge for shipping. Your friend can list all the files needed "after SP3" by KB number. You can go to: http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/v7/site/Home.aspx Use the search window, place a KB number and click go. Pick the file needed from the list presented for your friends computer. Placed them in the basket until you have all the files, then download to a folder. These are .exe files in individual folders, remove from the individual folder and place in a single folder. Can be burned to CD or installed on a flash drive, then transferred to a computer. For future use the OS, SP3 and the updates can be slipstreamed, (to a bootable Cd), using n-Lite. http://www.nliteos.com/index.html take care. beamish. |
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