Best guide for creating fully-updated XP install image ?

I'm looking at this:

Windows XP SP4 Unofficial Final Version 3.1b
http://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10321

or this:

XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack for Windows XP Post-SP3 20171010
https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7184

as the starting point in creating a fully-updated XP install image.

My intention is to use NLite and a real MS XP-pro SP3 CD and one of the
above two update packages, along with an assortment of hardware drivers,
to create a bootable USB thumbdrive that will give me "the best" win-XP
installation as far as it can be had as of the current time. Naturally
this would include the POS-ready 2009 hack and updates as they exist
currently.

Anyone here have any experience with this, or know if I'm on the right
track as far as using these update packages? Is there a better one?

I've done something like this with Win-7 and RT7lite (creating a win-7
sp1 install image that contains all current updates and patches without
any of the telemetry and bull**** win-10 upgrade hooks) last year.

On Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:38:49 -0400, Some Guy wrote:

I'm looking at this:

Windows XP SP4 Unofficial Final Version 3.1b
http://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10321

or this:

XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack for Windows XP Post-SP3 20171010
https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7184

as the starting point in creating a fully-updated XP install image.

My intention is to use NLite and a real MS XP-pro SP3 CD and one of the
above two update packages, along with an assortment of hardware drivers,
to create a bootable USB thumbdrive that will give me "the best" win-XP
installation as far as it can be had as of the current time. Naturally
this would include the POS-ready 2009 hack and updates as they exist
currently.

Anyone here have any experience with this, or know if I'm on the right
track as far as using these update packages? Is there a better one?

I've done something like this with Win-7 and RT7lite (creating a win-7
sp1 install image that contains all current updates and patches without
any of the telemetry and bull**** win-10 upgrade hooks) last year.

A month or so ago MS was still sending all of the updates to XP from a
fresh load and SP3. I just waited until that was done and imaged the
disk. I had already gone through, loaded the tools I want and
personalized the settings to my liking.

On Wed, 01 Nov 2017 20:38:49 -0400, Some Guy wrote:

I'm looking at this:

Windows XP SP4 Unofficial Final Version 3.1b
http://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10321

or this:

XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack for Windows XP Post-SP3 20171010
https://ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7184

as the starting point in creating a fully-updated XP install image.

My intention is to use NLite and a real MS XP-pro SP3 CD and one of the
above two update packages, along with an assortment of hardware drivers,
to create a bootable USB thumbdrive that will give me "the best" win-XP
installation as far as it can be had as of the current time. Naturally
this would include the POS-ready 2009 hack and updates as they exist
currently.

Anyone here have any experience with this, or know if I'm on the right
track as far as using these update packages? Is there a better one?

I opted for an XP Install Disk (SP2) and WSUS offline which I
saved on a DVD.
Install XP then update with WSUS (You get all the security
patches, SP3 and optionally, stuff like .NET, DirectX 9 and Office
updates.
No idea if WSUS can still download from MS .......
You could possibly "slipstream" WSUS updates into XP, but it's
probably not worth the bother.
Use 2 disks (or if you can get that SP3 image to boot from a
pendrive, you can put WSUS in a different directory/partition on same
pendrive. All told, about 2GB).
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