Subj : MSIE latest
To   : Eugene Tang
From : Rich Wonneberger
Date : Mon Jan 14 2002 01:21 pm

*** Quoting Eugene Tang to All dated 01-14-02 ***
> How do you go about downloading MSIE without actually installing the
> bloody thing, so you can move it onto other systems? I'd rather not 
> hook
> up each system to the net to download and install MSIE over and over
> again. Oh, and preferably to do this from a non-MS OS system (like
> OpenBSD...) 
> 

Eugene,

When you update IE from MS, it downloads the files to:
C:\windows update files
or something very similar.  You would have to do the one update, then copy the 
files from that folder.  Run the IESETUP (or such) and it installs.

I think MS may have a CD available with it.  Think I saw something mentioned 
about it.  I did have a 4.0 IE CD a while back.

You may want to hook each machine to I-Net anyway (even after updating IE 
which can be 18 meg) and check for critical updates and such.  Also, some 
systems need a 'mapped drive shutdown' fix, and something about a drive cache 
problem fix.  Some need these last two, some dont.

If you can do the critical updates off line that would save time also.  That 
could be several meg.

I wonder if you could find the files on the MS FTP site.

*** Quoting Eugene Tang to All dated 01-14-02 ***
> I noticed that Win98 updates are not available in an easily 
> downloadable
> form, and WinUpdate Corporate balked at me continuously when I tried to
> access it from not MSIE...

MS balks about anything not MS.

*** Quoting Eugene Tang to All dated 01-14-02 ***
> Question... does WinXP require an internet connection to work? (ie...
> the activation code acquisition)

You can phone in for the code.

Rich
I-Net   turtil@frontiernet.net


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