Does anyone have the XP updates disk?

[Gort]

Thank you for the helpful advice; but I have already managed to find, download, and install "SP4". In fact, I installed SP4 prior to downloading the WSUS XP updates that were kindly available on this site.

I'm not sure how much any of it actually helps, though! Considering how few people run XP now, and that almost certainly no one is writing viruses and malware for it, I wonder if the WSUS and SP4 security updates are really necessary.

[aker]

I'm a little confused, as there is no SP4 for Windows XP...

[boco]

Correction: There is no official SP4 for Windows.

When using the unofficial SP4, you do not need WSUSOU at all.

[Gort]

When using the unofficial SP4, you do not need WSUSOU at all.

Ah-ha! Well, this is good to know!

I had installed "SP4" and my system was working fine but when I installed the WSUS XP updated on top of SP4, I noticed that things seemed to slow down quite a bit, and it took much longer for the machine to boot.

But if all of the WSUS updates are contained in SP4, then I guess that's kinda sorta understandable. That I don't need the WSUS updates after installing SP4 is good to know!

(I'm glad that the XP update disk was already here and that no one had to upload it specifically for me!)

One last thing please: "Negg" mentioned that he thought that SP4 was 3gbs; I don't know where he downloaded his, but when I downloaded it, it was just a wee bit more than 1 gb.

Thank you again!

[boco]

http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.p ... 918#133918

It is 993MB. Please note what I said only applies to the official XP patches, but not to the Embedded ones. Those can be downloaded through WU/MU as normal.


http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6438

That pack contains more.

[Gort]

What exactly are the "embedded" ones please? Are those some species of Windows components?

If there are not contained in "SP4" do I need to install them? I'm reading and trying to understand the page to which you linked; as far as I can tell, none of them are really necessary. But I'm not really 100% sure.

[boco]

There are multiple XP SKU lines. One SKU/Edition is named "Windows XP Embedded POSReady 2009". That Windows XP (meant for Point Of Sales terminals etc.) still receives monthly security updates until 2019. Those are the updates I referred to as being "Embedded" ones. Most true XP packs do not contain them, and WSUSOU won't ever download them.

There is a simple registry hack that makes Windows Update think you have the Embedded POSReady Windows. Thus you'll receive Updates for XP until 2019. So far, they work good, but it's in your own responsibility.

http://betanews.com/2014/05/26/how-to-c ... ntil-2019/

[Joe]

The Windows 5.1 branch is still supported until 2019 for POSready 2009. But WSUSOU never supported properly filtering out these updates - in fact it immediately stopped working in May 2014 due to this issue. It started deleting "superseded" updates and downloading POSready updates, which don't work on Windows XP.

WSUSOU also never properly supported XP x64 Edition, it simply downloads Windows Server 2003 x64 updates, which don't work on XP and deletes "superseded" XP updates.

WSUSOU 9.2.1 is broken. The parser has to be fixed to get WinXP x86 and WinXP x64 instead of POSready2009 and Server2003x64. You might have more luck with a wsusscn2.cab from April 2014, where those bugs in WSUSOU don't show up yet.

Windows XP Automatic Updates should still work though.

[Joe]

There are multiple XP SKU lines. One SKU/Edition is named "Windows XP Embedded POSReady 2009". That Windows XP (meant for Point Of Sales terminals etc.) still receives monthly security updates until 2019. Those are the updates I referred to as being "Embedded" ones. Most true XP packs do not contain them, and WSUSOU won't ever download them.

That's not right WSUSOU 9.2.1 tries to download them. It also deletes updates superseded by those.

Then WSUSOU installer then tries to install the updates the download just deleted (or skipped) before. Of course, it doesn't try to install the POSready updates, because the WU agent properly knows which updates apply to real XP. So 9.2.1 doesn't work any more since May 2014 and generates broken update media.

[boco]

Since the author released a new version without support for XP (NT5.1) and moved on, nobody cared or tested, anymore. XP shouldn't be used in a public network anymore, anyway.

I just kept the last XP ISO I created, as it was clear even then that, eventually, the whole XP-related stuff would go belly-up.

I still have Win2000 ISOs, you surely cannot create those these days, anymore.