Windowsupdate with other browser than IE ?

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Does anybody know if there are browser which can do the Windowsupdate ?
I have mozilla 1.7 on my win98se system but it can not do Windowsupdate.
Thanks
 
Does anybody know if there are browser which can do the Windowsupdate ?
I have mozilla 1.7 on my win98se system but it can not do Windowsupdate.
Thanks
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Well if you have IE installed you could update through that.Or if you have
address bar (view>toolbars) showing on any of your folders you can put this
there...and click return
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
I believe the site uses active x to scan your pc to see what updates you
need so you will need that set to prompt or enabled.
me
 
Does anybody know if there are browser which can do the Windowsupdate ?
I have mozilla 1.7 on my win98se system but it can not do Windowsupdate.
Thanks
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Haven't been able to update w/ Opera, either.Consequently, the only
time I use IE, is for MS updates.I have the MS update page in the
trusted zone and set as homepage. Str8 to the patches and offline
again...;)
bLB
 
And said:
Does anybody know if there are browser which can do the
Windowsupdate ?
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Only IE can use MS's proprietary hooks.

Do what I do: download the updates instead, and install them
yourself.

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side and it
holds the universe together.
 
Does anybody know if there are browser which can do the Windowsupdate ?
I have mozilla 1.7 on my win98se system but it can not do Windowsupdate.
Thanks
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And M$ will make sure it never will.
 
buzz said:
Haven't been able to update w/ Opera, either.Consequently, the only
time I use IE, is for MS updates.I have the MS update page in the
trusted zone and set as homepage. Str8 to the patches and offline
again...;)
bLB
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When I use windows update I am told that the first thing that needs to
be done is to upgrade my IE to version 6, because IE6 is needed for the
rest of the update process.

This is probably the reason why other browsers do not work.
 
"PaulS" <[email protected]> wrote:
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Does anybody know if there are browser which can do the Windowsupdate ?
I have mozilla 1.7 on my win98se system but it can not do Windowsupdate.
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Your best bet is to ask for the MS Security Update CD. They "might" add
additional updates, as the 98SE "life cycle" is getting close to the end. In
this case you'll need an IE browser, or you can download the updates and
install them manually.

XP on the other hand is another story. I got the CD for 98SE & ME, but I went to
XP soon after. There were still a bucketload of updates I had to download that
were not on the CD. Maybe they have updated it by now, but I doubt it.
 
Does anybody know if there are browser which can do the Windowsupdate ?
I have mozilla 1.7 on my win98se system but it can not do Windowsupdate.
Thanks
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If you don't use IE or OE, there is practically no need to use Windows
Update, since 99.9% of it is to update those same risky apps.
 
If you don't use IE or OE, there is practically no need to use Windows
Update, since 99.9% of it is to update those same risky apps.
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Make that 50% and you might be closer
 
Christopher Jahn said:
Only IE can use MS's proprietary hooks.
Exactly.

Do what I do: download the updates instead, and install them
yourself.
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That's what I used to do too but there sometimes 3 or 4 patches to execute one by one and even
worse situation : assume you buy a computer shipped with a WinXP CD-ROM and than you
sometimes completely resinstall the operating system from scratch. Currently, this means :

1. Installation from the WinXP CD-ROM
2. Download the SP1 service pack
3. Download all other criticial patches posterior to the SP1 release date
4. Install items of 2. and 3. one by one, which is l-o-n-g.

I would be most interested in the way you do your updates.
 
Antoine said:
That's what I used to do too but there sometimes 3 or 4 patches to
execute one by one and even worse situation : assume you buy a
computer shipped with a WinXP CD-ROM and than you sometimes
completely resinstall the operating system from scratch. Currently,
this means :

1. Installation from the WinXP CD-ROM
2. Download the SP1 service pack
3. Download all other criticial patches posterior to the SP1 release
date
4. Install items of 2. and 3. one by one, which is l-o-n-g.

I would be most interested in the way you do your updates.
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Sorry if this is off topic. First search on thr net (google) to find out how
to make a bootable XP disk. Then copy the entire xp cd to your hard drive in
to a separate folder , maybe call it newXP. Then download XP SP1 and put it
in another folder. In the sp1 folder execute the update in a dos prompt and
point it to the newXP folder and it will slipstream sp1 into XP. Using the
bin you found with your google search and the newly updated files in your
newXP folder , along with the instruction for making a bootable xp cd, you
can make a new XP cd. Then when sp2 comes out do the same thing all over. If
this makes no sense to you .......... just do the search the guy that set it
up makes it easy.

MM
 
I see that Bill Gates is still wurming himself deeply in the OS , to make it
impossible to do updates with other browsers.
I'm very disappointed in that nobody can break the browser monopoly of ms.
Lot's of people who are normal users will not jump to another (competitive
or so) browser because just of this.
If Firefox would do the job I would step over to Firefox but what I read is
that it is just doing a sidepath.
.....One day.......(maybe....).......
Thank you for your reactions, I was happy to see your knowledge.
Paul
 
["PaulS"; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:12:30 GMT]
I see that Bill Gates is still wurming himself deeply in the OS , to
make it impossible to do updates with other browsers. [...] Lot's of
people [...] will not jump to another (competitive or so) browser
because just of this.
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I certainly can't understand why? Just use another browser and only use IE
for Windows Update. It's not much different than using Ad-Aware to
download an updated reference file -- only this application is gigantic
and essentially not uninstallable.
 
Does anybody know if there are browser which can do the Windowsupdate ?
I have mozilla 1.7 on my win98se system but it can not do Windowsupdate.
Thanks
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I use Mozilla Firefox v.9.2 with WinXP home edition.

XP's now up to date with Service Pack 1. That's happened
transparently over two logons to the net. Mind you, with my
memory, I can't remember if it launched IE v.6 and I don't really
mind. It's happened.

I use Forte's Agent for email and not Outlook Express nor
Outlook.

Trevor
 
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