On 15 Dec 2003, geoff wrote
In message , Colin
Wilson writes


I heard that uS were withdrawing support for 98, 98SE and
Millennium in January - better get your updates in quick.

Is there any way of saving updates to file ?

Fred Langa talked about this in his recent LangaList newsletter, and
gave a link to an article he wrote about how to do it:

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I have an entire feature-length article in the works for you that will
go over recommended end-of-the year update/cleanup/tune-ups for ALL
versions of Windows, but if you're one of the millions of users still
running Win98, you might want to get a jump on things by grabbing *and
storing* copies of all relevant Windows Update items so you'll have
them on hand even when Win98 support dries up.

It's easy, and the basic process--- for any Windows version (not just
Win98) was discussed in "How To Save Your Win98 (And Other) Updates
Offline" in http://langa.com/sendit.htm/newsletters/2003/2003-03-
20.htm#2 .

You can use Windows Update to see what's already installed on your
system ("View Installation History"); and then use the info from the
link above to grab a fresh, stand-alone copy of the update item(s) that
you want to save locally, so you can reinstall them any time you want,
right from your own hard drive. (Or CD, or whatever.)

That process works for ANY version of Windows, by the way: You really
never have to download any patch or update more than once. By grabbing
it once, by the above method, you can install it any number of times
from your local copy without ever having to download the same code
again.

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Langa's free newsletter is well worth subscribing to for this sort of
hint/discussion. (He's also got a paid-for "plus" version which I
don't get -- it's always sounded like "probably very good value",
though.)

Hope this helps.

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Cheers,
Harvey

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