Patching Vista on a PC with no net connection?

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I've never used Vista before but I'm helping someone out who has bought an HP machine with Vista (Home 32 bit I think) preinstalled on it, it's doing a few daft things and I'm wondering if patching Vista up to date might help, the only problem being that the machine has no net connection and it would be a load of hassle to set one up, so I was wondering if there was any way I could get the updates in a form that I could use on this machine (I think it's called redistributable)
 
Err, Bill doesn't want you to do this.

There used to be a site that had packaged all recent updates into one nice patch file - v.useful when patching multiple machines. But they got a cease and desist notice from MS.

WSUS may be an option if you have any kind of server.

Otherwise it will be easier to take the PC to the network.
 
Hodders said:
Err, Bill doesn't want you to do this.

There used to be a site that had packaged all recent updates into one nice patch file - v.useful when patching multiple machines. But they got a cease and desist notice from MS.
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Great! and they wonder why no one wants to 'upgrade' to Vista.

PowerDemon said:
Download and save all the updates individually with your own pc, burn them on a cd then take it to his pc.
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That is probably what I am going to have to do.

Thanks for the help.
 
Why would you want to patch Vista that has no network connection? The patches mainly come out because there were vunrabilities and holes in the system to allow people to take control of it over a network.

Most the patches on Vista are security updates.
 
andr3w1984 said:
Why would you want to patch Vista that has no network connection? The patches mainly come out because there were vunrabilities and holes in the system to allow people to take control of it over a network.

Most the patches on Vista are security updates.
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I've had a look at the descriptions of some of the updates and some of them mention stability, some of the other descriptions are pretty vague. The first piece of software I tried to install on it (Roxio Easy media Creator 9) was stuck on the 'Configuring windows for your system' message for about 10 minutes.
 
Hey decimator, I do apologize, I kind of missed that post. :o

When installing the "Roxio Easy media Creator 9", have you tried, opening up the CD or DVD contents and right clicking and running it as the administrator?

Now, even if your friend wasn’t experiencing any issues, I would highly recommend installing all of the Performance and Reliability packs along with all of the updates that Microsoft have released since Windows Vista got released. They tremendously improve just about every aspect and area of Windows Vista. :)
 
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Fire Wizard said:
When installing the "Roxio Easy media Creator 9", have you tried, opening up the CD or DVD contents and right clicking and running it as the administrator on the installer?
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Thanks, I will give that a go.

Now, even if your friend wasn’t experiencing any issues, I would highly recommend installing all of the Performance and Reliability packs along with all of the updates that Microsoft have released since Windows Vista got released. They tremendously improve just about every aspect and area of Windows Vista. :)
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OK, well I had a look at the Windows update site for the Vista-specific updates and there were 400+ of them :eek: so it looks like it's probably going to be easier to hook it up to the net somehow.
 
No need to go down the WSUS route... that's massive overkill. Just use a PC that is connected to the net to download the required patches and burn them to CD to transfer to the Vista PC.

If you browse to this site...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Browse.aspx?displaylang=en&categoryid=7

...you can search for the patches you want to download and save the installer as a .exe which you can run on the other PC. Some of the patches may require the Windows Genuine Advantage client to verify that you're running a legit version of Windows (not necessary for security patches, iirc).
 
Oops, didn't think of that. You could well be right. Maybe getting the machine in question online might be the easiest option after all then.
 
Perhaps your friend could bring his PC round to yours and just hook up that way? Have you got a crossover CAT5e cable? Or a router? Just get him to plug in that way and it should work.
 
I have a vague recolection of reading somewhere that Vista was the first MS OS to have an internet connection in its system requirements
 
If your having a problem with "Roxio Easy media Creator 9" then contact Roxio to see what the solution is with Vista. It may require a certain patch then you can just download the one you need.
 
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