Newsgroup: it.comp.os.win.win9x
Titolo: Archiviare copia aggiornamenti

Dovendo formattare il mio PC.....
Mi chiedevo, in che cartella fossero e se era possibile fare una copia di
tutti gli aggiornamenti di Win98 scaricati dal sito di Windows update ?
Oppure, dopo la formattazione, sono costretto a ricollegarmi e ripetere il
tutto ?
Avrei la stessa domanda per il Norton anno 2000, con tutti gli aggiornamenti
Live update
Nell'attesa di una gradita (e spero positiva) risposta,
    Anticipatamente Vi ringrazio
Angelo....

 tutti gli aggiornamenti di Win98 scaricati dal sito di Windows update ?
Mi sa' che devi riscaricare tutto di nuovo...
ma questa volta puoi salvare gli update per la prossima volta
Copio incollo (perche' non ricordo l'url)
As you know, when you download an update from the Windows update page,
it installs automatically after the file has finisheddownloading.
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 clicking onView > Internet Options.
On the General tab under Temporary Internet Files, hit the Delete Files button.
This will make it easier toidentify 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 thefiles 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.
Forthe *.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 temporarydirectory.
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 willcall an "advanced inf file."
These require a little more to install.
After digging through some of the dll's on my machine, I found
this command will work to install:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection <inf file(required)>,
<inf section(optional)>
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 file asthe 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 install theupdates using the inf files.
To do this, first copy the *.cab files to a temporary directory.
Next, use notepad to create the batch 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
to reinstall98, 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