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neotransotaku
Posts: 3671/4016 |
i think he was referring to the fact that window updates for English WinXP don't work for swedish windows XP |
HyperLamer
Posts: 6080/8210 |
Originally posted by Ranko's Slave
You know what sucks?
It's English only...
...would been useful for one of my older computers though. 
You speak 2 languages, don't you? Translations are always good.  |
Cornellius
Posts: 334/460 |
Thanks DOS. That's shweet. Guess I'll use this now to update WinXP  |
Ailure
Posts: 10633/11162 |
You know what sucks?
It's English only...
...would been useful for one of my older computers though. |
neotransotaku
Posts: 3656/4016 |
interesting...with this, people are one step closer of truly having only the windows core  |
Colin
Posts: 9514/11302 |
It's neat but I'm surprised that it missed one update... SP2, considering that I don't have it. 
Great find though. |
Prier
Posts: 6815/8392 |
Nope, worked with mine, Leno. Just went through it to install a few things (Win2K SP4).
I like it, that's for sure. I'll have to remember to use it from now on. |
Lenophis
Posts: 583/830 |
El sweetness! One problem though, after any update, it crashes with a "could not be read" error. I'm using Firefox v1.0.6 (yeah, you read that correctly), so is it just my version of FF doing this? |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1537/1657 |
It was called Firefox starting with version 0.8. Firebird 0.7 is indeed what I meant...
No, they won't force you to download service packs. Part of the point is so you won't be forced by the official one or auto-updates. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 6023/8210 |
Cool, but Firebird? You mean Firefox? And can they still force you to download things like SP2? |
FreeDOS
Posts: 1536/1657 |
http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/
Quite simply, it's a plugin for the following browsers: Firebird 0.7, Netscape 4.0, Opera 5.0, K-Meleon 0.9. Higher versions of said browsers are of course supported. It does just what Windows Update does, only through non-IE browsers.
What's so exciting about it? I hear you ask. Well, it will update versions of Windows that have gone onto Microsoft's "do not care about" list. Currently that includes: Windows 95 Gold/A/B/C, 98 FE/SE, Me, NT 4, 2000 SP0, 2000 SP1, and XP SP0. Quite nifty if you don't want to take the trouble to manually download 400 updates on a fresh Win95 copy... or the others. 
Even if you'd rather have a most recent version/service pack of Windows, I'll still highly recommend this. Simply for the fact that the common favourite browsers are supported. It might take a few days for an update to get to it, but on the other hand it's likely been an issue with Windows for months or years before, and could wait a couple days. You also get to remove the core of Internet Explorer.... which apparently Automatic Updates relies on  (found that out the hard way) |
