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When 9x dies

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by andypiesse9

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Macroshaft has declared it is withdrawing support for 9x next year. Has anyone thought about keeping 'copies' of all the patches and updates issued so that if they need to rebuild a 9x after then, they will be able to install to the last update available? I am looking at obtaining or creating a CD but as yet I don't know how best to implement. Any suggestions welcome.
Please don't suggest should be on XP etc., as some people don't want to waste world resources by throwing away computers just because they can't run the latest version.

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by guruofdos

Some of us are forced to stay with 9x because later Microshaft O/S's isolate the user from the hardware to such a degree that direct reading and writing of hardware addresses is a no go!

I still have 3.11 on a few machines too even though Microsoft insist there are too few users left to even worry about anymore!

by thechas

I ALWAYS download and save the update files, and burn them to CD.

The simplest way to start, is to go to the downloads section of Microsoft's web site, and select the version of Windows for both the OS and files for.

Open each link, and save the files.
I use notepad, and paste the brief file description into a test file with the same name as the update so that I know what I have.

Now for the problem, some of the updates are registry edits that can not be downloaded seperately.

You could install a registry spy on a fresh Windows install, and exprt the change keys for latter use.

Chas

by stone5150

I never had much use for the updates, I just insulate the machine with firewalls, AV and sensible emailing and surfing practices. I still use NT 4 Server and support was withdrawn awhile back, I have a safe copy of CD and SP6a in safe, that is all Ineed.

I say piss on the upgrade treadmill, I will upgrade when I want to, not because they come out with shiny new baubles every year.

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