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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1536/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| 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) |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 6023/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Cool, but Firebird? You mean Firefox? And can they still force you to download things like SP2? | |||
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1537/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| 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. |
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Lenophis Super Koopa Level: 44  Posts: 583/830 EXP: 584360 For next: 26925 Since: 03-15-04 From: Duluth, MN Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 3 hours |
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| 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? | |||
Prier Archangel Administrative Priestess. NUCLEAR SUB WEEEOOOO Level: 119  Posts: 6815/8392 EXP: 18790939 For next: 138352 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima Dist. - Tokyo, Japan Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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| 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. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 9514/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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It's neat but I'm surprised that it missed one update... SP2, considering that I don't have it.  Great find though. |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 3656/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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interesting...with this, people are one step closer of truly having only the windows core  |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 10633/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| You know what sucks? It's English only... ...would been useful for one of my older computers though.  |
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Cornellius Buster Beetle Level: 33  Posts: 334/460 EXP: 224182 For next: 4997 Since: 06-04-04 From: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 10 hours |
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Thanks DOS. That's shweet. Guess I'll use this now to update WinXP  |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 6080/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by Ranko's Slave You speak 2 languages, don't you? Translations are always good.  |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 3671/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| i think he was referring to the fact that window updates for English WinXP don't work for swedish windows XP |
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