Patching Vista on a PC with no net connection?

decimator · 4 Dec 2007 at 17:59

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)

decimator · 4 Dec 2007 at 18:39

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.

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.

That is probably what I am going to have to do.

Thanks for the help.

decimator · 4 Dec 2007 at 18:46

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.

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.

decimator · 4 Dec 2007 at 18:54

This one

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decimator said:
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.

decimator · 4 Dec 2007 at 19:06

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?

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.

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.

decimator · 4 Dec 2007 at 20:16

OK. ta but I thought that Windows Genuine Advantage needed a net connection to work?