[geeks] Windows XP, and activation

[Bryan Fullerton]

On 11/7/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> > I believe you need to have relatively current levels of various
> > Windows components (Windows Update client, Microsoft Installer,
>
> I know, that's one reason I used a slipstream install that was current
> as of September 2006.

Have you confirmed that other people using the slipstream install are
getting updates? Maybe the slipstreaming process broke something...

> I picked another option that just backgrounds downloads and asks later,
> so maybe that won't care what time it is.

You can manually kick off a background Windows Update check using
'wuauclt /detectnow' at the command line. Windows Update logs to
%windir%\Windowsupdate.log, and the log is surprisingly useful.

(I find myself in the unfortunate position of supporting far too many
Windows desktops and servers at current $WORK, as well as many Linux
servers)

Bryan