installing updates after downloading

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sjbibb

I figured out how to download all the critical updates
using the windows catalog to my hardrive and then to a cd.
I wanted this so I could update my mother-in-law computer
as well as my daughters since they had not updated any of
the 44 critical updates and they are on dialup. The
problem is now that I have them downloaded I cannot
figure out how to load all of them at once. I have to go
to the folder and click on each updates one at a time.
there must be a easier way to do this.
 
You may be able to something like this.


1.. On a system you have the updates on, open the
command prompt.
2.. Change to the root of the Updates directory.
This is the download location you specified previously
in the Windows Update Catalog
3.. Run the following command:

DIR *.exe /s /b >> Update.bat

This will redirect a bare recursive directory listing
of
the updates directory to a batch file named "Update.bat".

4.. Edit the batch file to add the desired switches
(/q, /n, /z etc.) to the individual updates to be
installed.

Now you can just run the single batch file and it will
install all the updates.

Hawkens
 
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