windows 8 fresh install

[negg]

Hi im just playing around with my old operating system and I used this to update the system. Running the program its installing 88 updates but in the directory there are 155 update files. If its only needing 88 updates why is it downloading more files than needed and wasting space on my pen drive????

[boco]

There are excessive files being patches for different IE/Dotnet etc. versions supported on the system. Since you only have one version of IE on the target system, patches for other IE versions are skipped. Same with Dotnet and some other components: Some updates are applicable, some not.
WSUSOU does not force the user to install latest IE/Dotnet/etc. since in corporate environments you need specific versions of IE, sometimes.

Note that the 64bit version of Windows 8 shares the kernel with Server 2012 and thus updates for both are in that directory.

[negg]

That makes sense then and it will be a right pain to manually remove the unneeded updates as well. And using the compression tool built into fat32 & ntfs causes the download and update process to fail which is a bummer as it reduces the overall app size buy almost 1gig with the amount of updates and systems I have downloaded.

[boco]

Compression is only available for NTFS. USB pen drives normally aren't supposed to be formatted as NTFS (FAT, FAT32 or exFAT).

What type of pen drive you have? 1GB isn't much with an average of 16GB in use today?

To reduce size, try to not include Defender/MSSE definitions.

[negg]

no the pen drive is formatted to fat 32 and its 16 gig in size with all the updates I need for wsus it uses just over 14 gig when its compressed its just over 13 gig but then I cant use wsus to install the updates or check for new ones. I get download or install errors all the time even if I do it from a hard drive.

[boco]

FAT32 does not have any compression support. Other compressions (like ZIP-"Folders") render WSUSOU unusable, since it relies on a specific directory structure (a ZIP-"Folder" is just a file, not a directory). NTFS compression might work as it is transparent and keeps the directory structure intact.

[negg]

Na it don't even work with NTFS compression, or at least i cant get it to work. It says its downloading all the updates but when it comes to downloading only the core operating file updates e.g w61-64 all the files are zero size even though you get the progress bar!!!!! Also if i download it and then compress it when installing all the hash tags fail and it says the files are corrupt and wont install the updates, again only for the core operating systems, donet and c++ etc are fine. Tried it on my main pc and 3 laptops same problem all the time....