@The_Assimilator said:
Go on, I'll wait.
Oooh, so I can now waste your time making you wait? }:-D
I'll answer:
@The_Assimilator said:
@Jedalyzer said:I just downloaded ... using a different computer and copied them over on a flash drive.
Please explain why you didn't do THE EXACT SAME THING AS ABOVE...?
Um, because I forgot you could do that...? I also wanted to do as much as I could with the computer itself. Isolation of resources, you know. :P
@anonymous234 said:
@blakeyrat said:@Jedalyzer said:But, um, Windows XP uses the obsolete update site instead of the Windows Update tool.
This is where you went wrong. That is not true.
Well, it does use a web interface, though it obviously uses an ActiveX control to install the stuff. I'm not sure why you'd call it "obsolete" (at least, any more obsolete than the rest of Windows XP).
Maybe he meant that the site is unusable due to that bug. I tried to install Windows XP on a virtual machine just a few weeks ago and Windows Update just sat there "searching for updates" for a solid 6 hours before I got bored and cancelled.
I just looked for update or upgrade, and IE6 doesn't have upgrade functionality built-in that I could see, and the Windows update site gave some error about not being able to load updates for my system or something like that.
@FrostCat said:
No, he went wrong first by installing XP, an OS which goes out of support in 4 months.
Meh, it works, and we have it.
@blakeyrat said:
@anonymous234 said:Well, it does use a web interface,
Nope. In XP, you could just use the control panel.
Ah. I did not think of this. I've become familiar with finding Windows Update by typing it into the Start search box in Win7; I forgot about it residing in the CP.
@Ben L. said:
...@blakeyrat said:Well maybe not the copy on the CD, but certainly by SP3.
I wonder how you could update an unpatched Windows XP to service pack 3. Maybe some kind of... no, that's too obvious.
Maybe I'm too tired right now, but I'm not getting it.