How to download updates for drivers and hotfixes from the Windows Update Catalog
Hello to all,
Can anyone suggest me How do I download updates for drivers and hotfixes from the Windows Update Catalog, this is little not understandable by me.
Please help,Any suggestions would be Appreciable.
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Re: How to download updates for drivers and hotfixes from the Windows Update Catalog
To update the drivers and hotfixes follow the steps mentioned:
Step 1: Access the Windows Update Catalog
To access the Windows Update Catalog, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Step 2: Download updates
To download updates from the Windows Update Catalog, follow these steps and for that you have to go to the Microsoft official site.
Here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx
- Click view basket under the Search box to view the download basket.
- Verify your list of updates, and then click Download.
Note If you are prompted, click Accept to accept the license agreement. - Select the location where you want to save the updates. You can either type the full path of the folder, or you can click Browse to locate the folder.
- Click Continue to start the download.
- When the download is complete, click Close to close the Download Window.
- Close the Windows Update Catalog Window.
- Find the location that you specified in step 3c.
- Double-click each update, and follow the instructions to install the update.
Note:If the updates are intended for another computer, copy the updates to that computer, and double-click the updates to install them.
Re: How to download updates for drivers and hotfixes from the Windows Update Catalog
To determine when a product update was created, check the Modified date on the Update.exe or Hotfix.exe installation program in the update package.
To install multiple updates with only one restart
- Run the update installer with the -z switch to instruct the installer not to restart after the installation. Add the -m switch (for Quiet mode) if you do not want prompts or messages to appear during the installation.
- The update installer is one of the following programs:
- The self-extracting package program file (for example, Qnnnnnn_w2k_spx_x86_en.exe).
- Hotfix.exe (if you have extracted all the files from the package).
- After you install all the hotfixes, run QChain.exe.
- Restart the computer.
You can also create a batch file to do this. The following sample batch file demonstrates this method:
Quote:
@echo off
setlocal
set PATHTOFIXES=some path
%PATHTOFIXES%\Q123456_w2k_sp2_x86.exe -z -m
%PATHTOFIXES%\Q123321_w2k_sp2_x86.exe -z -m
%PATHTOFIXES%\Q123789_w2k_sp2_x86.exe -z -m
%PATHTOFIXES%\qchain.exe