How to make my own Windows Service Pack

[Abigail101]

Hi all,

As a windows system administrator, installation of the safety HotFix should be familiar, and each time a machine after the patch is always download as much, but annoying to install a HotFix is often the system will Reboot once, of course, Reboot ago, we do not click "OK" button, direct installation of a Reboot after the other patches are also acceptable, but this seems a bit less professional, So i want to make my own Service Pack. Please suggest. Thanks in advance.

[Dr. V]

I am using Windows 2000 Server, and i install security patches from Microsoft sites. After that switch to CMD mode, the C disk to create a hotfix directory, then run Q269523_W2K_SP2_x86_IN.EXE / x . Unpacked in the order recommended by the size of Q numbers are arranged from small to big reasons . That asks unpacked prompted enter the path "C: \ Hotfix". check and reply.

[SalVatore]

You need to go following command. C: \> cd hotfix. After you can seen , C: \ hotfix> dir. Volume in drive C is C. Volume Serial Number is AC58-F7F5
C: \ hotfix directory. you can see

2001-05-04 04:00 <DIR>.
2001-05-04 04:00 <DIR> ..
2000-08-14 18:57 98,064 hotfix.exe
2000-08-14 18:57 15,139 hotfix.inf
2000-08-14 17:19 835,856 kernel32.dll
2000-08-14 17:19 85,776 services.exe
2000-08-14 18:31 88,245 sp2.cat
2000-08-14 18:57 3,584 spmsg.dll
2001-05-04 04:00 <DIR> symbols
2001-05-04 04:00 <DIR> uniproc

We will then file a copy of hotfix.inf. after go to following coammnd C: \ hotfix> copy hotfix.inf q269523_cn.inf
You need to copy have been copied a file. Then you will be the second HotFix unpacked. Q270676_W2K_SP2_x86_IN.EXE / x. That asks unpacked prompted enter the path "C: \ Hotfix". Will also be at this time hotfix.inf file copy C: \ hotfix> copy hotfix.inf q270676_cn.inf. copied a file to your system. Check and reply.

[jesse]

This time we have HotFix files are unpacked to C: \ Hotfix directory, and have various HotFix copy of the inf file, we now come to analyze these inf files, generally we finally unpacked the inf file as a template because the inf file divided up into many fields, from my observations of the results, as time goes by, inf file fields may increase, which is what we began to unpack the reasons for the order according to Q, in this case, we with the inf file as the template Q270676, and we edit the hotfix.inf file that already contains the information Q270676, Q269523 As long as we put the information can be added to the file, the following Q269523 us to analyze the contents of the inf file. Best of luck.

[Lillebror]

You need to search CopyAlways.DriverCab.files, Cache.files, Uniprocessor.Kernel.files, Multiprocessor.Kernel.files, SourceDisksFiles, and the corresponding information is added to hotfix.inf file, also pay attention to add the necessary annotations file, inf file Note the sign indicated by a semicolon. Of course, we also recommend you to own the necessary items in the template file also to make a few comments, such as the 2 hotfix is included in Cache.files, we have modified since become:

[Cache.files]
; Q269523 
SERVICES.EXE
KERNEL32.DLL
; Q270676 A
winzm.ime
winsp.ime
winpy.ime
wingb.ime
winabc.ime

All the best.

[Calvin K]

We began to install the Service Pack to make our own bar, in fact, the implementation of HotFix.exe as long as we can, it will find its own inf file, then you will see a copy of document the progress bar, then the system ask you to Reboot, point "OK", restart, we HotFix on the installation is completed. Finally, we can see results, you can go take a look at the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ HotFix. You will find that you install Q123456 obediently stay there again ~ great sense of accomplishment oh ~ Last sum up: every time a new HotFix, you will add the file to your SP package, then modify your inf file, you can ignore for you Microsoft was not also issue new SP of the (NT 4, SP 7 no) and, of course, SP in not only include security patches, other aspects of the system has also improved, certainly can not be compared to licensed software. All the best.