QUOTE (eidenk @ May 21 2006, 06:28 PM)
I have uploaded it on mytempdir. I can't guarantee it is the exact content of the original though it should be.
http://www.mytempdir.com/682312Thanks, eidenk.
It looks close enough to work [cosmetic WinME reference aside
].
Where did this updater come from? It's a slightly nicer way to do a batch job equivalent for most things that you can do in a batch.
However, when applying 98SE updates, there can be sticky spots to deal with. Here's a little snag:
I assume you cannot do a file delete with it, but a batch can. In another thread I documented there are strange properties of a small few updates where unless you can delete a file placed by a particular hotfix, no newer hotfix [or even the SP 2.1a!] can fix the problem. Additionally, it also causes QFECHECK to act strangely supporting the incorrect version.
Since I prefer to get as much QFECHECK info as possible [when are we going to write a QFECHECK manifest file for QFECHECK?], I install this obsolete update to obtain the QFECHECK stuff. Unless I can place a file delete command immediately afterwards, replacement updates [with newer non-problematic versions] later in the batch file cannot properly install [nor can the SP 2.1a later!] for the file [vip.386 4.10.0 2224 or later; the problematic update installs 2223.]
So, is there a way to make this updater perform some file deletion routine [perhaps a batch job?!
]
On looking at the updates supplied, I notice ample usage of updates such as to IE 6.0 SP1 using the familiar /q:a /r:n construction.
Please note that this does not completely work, at least in some of the cases of updating IE 6.0 SP1. There are some combinations of updates that just don't install that way. If you perform the update manually, you get an error message, usually something about "This update requires Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1!" and it aborts. Using the switches just suppresses the error messages; it doesn't get the job done.
This is why I devised the kludgy rebooting updater. By allowing a reboot, the problem goes away in certain specific instances where the updates were mandated to be installed in a specific order, with an intervening reboot.
However, I do have an open question: Is it possible to make the updates work by an alternate method, such as passing the switches /n:v?
Recently mgdx posted the Q329919 update, which I never had experience with before. Manually attempting to add it was rejected for a similar reason as above, but using the /n:v switch made it install just fine. [Of course this isn't a reboot problem; apparently the combination of other IE updates already installed ticks off the installer of the hotfix for some unknown reason. To that extent, it seems to be the same problem.]
In any case, I was able to successfully update an existing system to include Q329919 [use IE help/about shows the update just fine after all the others already applied] so all appears fine via this newer method, etc.
For a new install, I intend to figure out what updates to IE/OE are "tolerated" by the Q329919 update as preinstallation-acceptable "prerequisites" meaning what seems benign to the install process to avoid the need for the /n:v switch. Assuming this can be accomplished, then admittedly this would be one step closer to not needing the kldugy reboot between updates. [Remember, the kludgy thing always reboots between all updates, but clearly some need the reboot, and it's more work to figure out which ones really don't and which ones really do need the reboot, thus it's a generic kludge, etc.]
In any case, the main point to make is that installing IE updates willy-nilly merely depending on the quiet mode of /q:a /r:n does NOT always work, whereas certain combinations regardless of option switches WILL work as long as there is an intervening reboot.
Thanks to all of the recently posted updates and kudoes to all who have gathered them up. By my latest count, there are now 47 fixes to IE 6.0 SP1 beyond initial install OFFICIALLY and 2 more UNOFFICIALLY that fix stuff MS chose not to give us non-XP versions for. [Yes, I know that not all of them are unique, but all 47 will give IE help/about information, and clearly it's not just a matter of two streams of cumulative updates, one for IE, and the other one for OE; rather there are a bunch of one-off updates as well, and apparently not all of them are posted in any single place I am aware of.]
I need to get my act together to make the kludgy thing a bit less kludgy, and then will release it here. [It only does 38 or the updates because I haven't had time to add on the newly posted ones and some done in relatively recent months; I'm just now running at about 2/3 speed with regard to keeping up with all of the bursts of wonderful activity here; please bear with me as I contribute questions and answers to tbe best I can offer, etc.]
Can anyone give me information on how to batch [or use this nice updater!] for the two unofficial updates Q905495 and Q911567 in terms of option switches they might need to run in "quiet" mode or whatever? To be included in the list-of-49 hopefully!
cjl
This download is no longer hosted by mytempdir. Is there an up-to-date download site available?
)
Anyone know what's happened to wiSHmaKeR who made this programme? And has the programme now been superseded by all the latest goodies or does it still have merit?
