I'd like to preface this post with my appreciation for this software. Truly a great application, thank you!!!
I have been working with both version of WOU (9.x and 11.x). I've made some excellent progress in understanding how it works, and also utilizing custom files for static and excluded updates. I've also created an entirely new custom batch script that is called, to handle some fringe scenarios that WOU currently does not, an example: Installation of Word, Excel and PowerPoint Viewers from 2003/2007 + their respective service packs and/or updates -- a combination of which will be executed depending on what is already installed.
But this is not what I'm requesting help with. A few months ago, I used v9.2.5 to download wxp media and saved it. Very recently, I used v9.2.6 to download the same wxp media, so now I have 2 different copies. I've created a VM with a clean install of Windows XP with SP3 and no other updates, to perform the test below. Besides the usual installations like IE8, RootCerts, DirectX, WMP11, and .NET Frameworks:
- When I use the media built with v9.2.5, there are approximately 160-170 additional updates that are installed
- When I use the media built with v9.2.6, there are only 26 additional updates that are installed (see below)
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Tue 12/10/2019 22:18:39.80 - Info: Detected state of service 'Windows Update': Running (start mode: Manual)
Tue 12/10/2019 22:18:57.89 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb958644-x86-enu_5c135a8dae5721849430afe27af255f83e64f62b.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:02.45 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb2347290-x86-enu_de6572122c6323cc343a9273ee0d24188b240a32.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:07.27 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB4012598-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:11.16 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB4012583-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:16.38 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB4022747-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:25.95 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\IE8-WindowsXP-KB4018271-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:31.25 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB4018466-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:36.05 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB3197835-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:40.89 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB4024323-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:45.84 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB4025218-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:50.58 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB4024402-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:54.46 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\WindowsXP-KB4019204-x86-Custom-ENU.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:19:59.70 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb4500331-x86-custom-enu_d7206aca53552fececf72a3dee93eb2da0421188.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:04.63 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb898461-x86-enu_e8e139341e1a6c535ddf2db57052c71d19fc7249.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:09.64 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb2749655-x86-enu_81e0108b1a83bc558dc2aee86e40eca769c5e9d8.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:16.04 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb971029-x86-enu_c5a9081a6d7a0ba32848782ca6f4e4031cdb595f.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:21.78 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb968389-x86-enu_60547c9ff654ed09c9343b3096e726eaf44e2259.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:29.18 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb961118-x86-enu_3c7fea5bd8d44bd1c11a0d33240cfedaa026f59f.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:34.46 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb952287-x86-enu_5bee5928c09f4ee44bc41cab109022cec820e5ff.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:39.91 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb951978-x86-enu_c4f54a2ade0b013fee8c71efcf60fd412dc0cd8c.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:45.14 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb2345886-x86-enu_f0473cd9468a3585a5da8e906ab58ad95d1ded2d.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:50.46 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb970430-x86-enu_862d51f1d8e9ae7e08db9bb4b57e0841521a98fb.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:20:55.61 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb975467-x86-enu_703673b065074bb9dd7d849f420e52ea0d343f8d.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:00.70 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb2808679-x86-enu_3b48f4913204d1d3353a4831f1b3e2e7d74cf26e.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:05.78 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\ie8-windowsxp-kb2598845-x86-enu_cb0093da2dcc2413c01b871c929d9ba425eddef9.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.29 - Info: Installed ..\wxp\enu\windowsxp-kb2492386-x86-enu_faf6a2d18dd48898b7534359b0cf211696a5e46d.exe
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.32 - Info: Installed 26 updates
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.35 - Info: Registered log file display
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.35 - Info: Restored Winlogon registry hive
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.39 - Info: Restored System policies registry hive
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.44 - Info: Unregistered recall
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.46 - Info: Disabled autologon
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.46 - Info: Deleted registry reference to WOUTempAdmin profile
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.46 - Info: Registered deletion of WOUTempAdmin profile
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:11.46 - Info: Registered deletion of recall directory
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:13.86 - Info: Deleted WOUTempAdmin account
Tue 12/10/2019 22:21:13.90 - Info: Ending WSUS Offline Update
If I run the Windows Update after each scenario, I can verify that when only 26 updates are run, Windows Update shows over 140 still missing...Very puzzling