Newsgroup: it.comp.aiuto
Titolo: Windows update

Salve a tutti.
Chiedo:
Come posso fare a salvare gli updates di windows in modo che quando
reinstallo il s.o. non occorre nuovamente collegarmi ad internet per
scaricarli?
Grazie a tutti,
Saluti.

 scaricarli?
Il più delle volte non è possibile e non è nemmeno consigliabile
A volte le patch stesse subiscono una revisione
Se hai Win 98 puoi salvare su disco i vecchi updates (quelli datati 
1998-2000) così sei sicuro che almeno quelli non verranno aggiornati
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/corporate.asp

reinstallo il s.o. non occorre nuovamente collegarmi ad internet per scaricarli?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/corporate.asp
As you know, when you download an update from the Windows update page,
it installs automatically after the file has finished downloading.
But what if you want to install that same update on another PC.
Or what if you want to save the files that weredownloaded so that you can
reinstall them later if need be without having to download them all over again.
This can be done with alittle planning.
Before you go to Windows update, empty your Internet cache folders.
Right click on the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop and choose Properties.
You can also get there by running IE and clickingon View > Internet Options. On the General tab under Temporary Internet Files,
hit the Delete Files button. This will make it
easier to identify and copy out the files that get downloaded from the update site.
Now, go to the Windows update site and download the updates that you want.
During the download, watch the Temporary Internet Filesfolder. You should be able to tell which files it is downloading to do the
updates. They are *.cab files or *.exe files. Once the
files have downloaded, copy them to a directory for storage. If you can't find them in the Temporary Internet Files folder, do
asearch for an msdownload.tmp directory on your PC after they have finished downloading, you may find them there.
The Windows Update will automatically install the files once they are finished downloading. However, reinstalling them is not
asautomatic is it should be, but we'll find a way around that as well.
For the *.exe files, it is easy to reinstall this update. Simply double (or single)
click on the exe file and it will reinstall.
For the *.cab files, there is a little more to it. To start with, you will need to
extract the contents of the cab file to a temporary directory.
Since cabview is built into Windows 98, this requires nothing more than double
(or single) clicking on the cab file, selecting allof the contents, and choose Extract
from the File menu. Extract them to a temporary folder.
One of the files that gets extracted is a *.inf (setup information) file.
The usual procedure is to right click on the file andchoose Install. This won't work on some of the files downloaded from the
update page. They are a new type if inf file that we will
call an "advanced inf file." These require a little more to install. After digging through some of the dll's on my machine, Ifound
this command will work to install:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection <inf file(required)>,<inf section(optional)>
(line wrapped for better readability)
So, to install the advanced inf files, you will need to run this command from a MS-DOS window, supplying the name of the inf
fileas the first parameter, the second parameter
 is not needed.
Now for the way to automate this. You can create a simple batch file that will extract the contents of the cab files and
installthe updates using the inf files.
To do this, first copy the *.cab files to a temporary directory.
Next, use notepad to create thebatch file and copy and paste these two line into the file:
for %%1 in (*.cab) do extract %%1 /E
for %%2 in (*.inf) do RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %%2
Run the batch file in the temporary folder containing the *.cab files and it will first extract everything from the cab file
andthen install the update using the advanced inf file.
You can use this to either reinstall the updates if you ever need toreinstall 98, or to copy the downloaded updates to another
machine and install them there without having to re-download the updates.
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Fosco