How To Update Windows Xp In 2018

You may accept read my blogpost on the actions admins need to take to go along working with Windows XP in their networking environments. It's a long list. While many blogs and websites have shared similar information, one action is on everybody's list:
Update Windows XP with the latest updates.

So, how like shooting fish in a barrel is information technology to perform this job?

Without a fourth ServicePack for Windows XP, containing all the updates for Windows XP up till April 8th, 2014, it's really about connecting a device running Windows XP to the net and downloading the updates through Windows Update, or connecting a device to the corporate network and downloading updates from the on-premises Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) installation. This, of course, is not the best of ideas: Every security expert has warned against connecting Windows XP boxes to the internet or your corporate network after April 8th…

Direct from my toolbox comes a tool that helps you with this job:

WSUS Offline

WSUS Offline is an unofficial plan, that you lot tin can use to update Windows installations for situations with no and low-speed Internet connectivity. It was previously known as "c't offline update" and "DIY Service Pack".

Information technology allows you to simply cheque Microsoft products, subsequently which it will fetch all the updates from Microsoft's official FTP server. So far, this sounds similar the official Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) that Microsoft offers, simply Offline WSUS has another trick up its sleeve: Afterwards yous've downloaded all the applicable updates, you tin create a virtual CD/DVD (*.iso file) per product, per architecture (x86 / x64) and/or per language.

Version 9.1 of Offline WSUS was released on Apr 4th, 2014 and is the last version of Offline WSUS. This, then, is the version of Offline WSUS you want. You can get it from wsusoffline.net.

Tip!
After you've downloaded wsusoffline91.aught, check it is 2281694 bytes in size and employ Microsofts File Checksum Integrity Verifier to bank check information technology has a SHA1 checksum corresponding to 369d17656164139de81f49c3c32192286c492b1b.

Next, extract the contents of the file and run UpdateGenerator.exe. Adjacent, select the Legacy products tab. This is where you'll observe updates for Windows XP x86:

Legacy Tab in the WSUS Offline Update 9.1

Tip!
Download Part 2003 through WSUS Offline every bit well, when you're running it in a networked environment, since back up on this production also ended on April 8th, 2014.

Tip!
You can point WSUS Offline to your on-bounds Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) installation to pull all the updates. Use the WSUS… button to this purpose. After successful download and tests, you can free up (expensive) hard disk space past cleaning up the Windows XP updates at that place.

Today, I've selected English and Dutch for Windows XP (including ServicePacks) and ended up with ii virtual DVDs (*.iso files) in to iso subdirectory of where I unpacked to:

wsusoffline-wxp-enu.iso
807 MB, 181 applicable updates
wsusoffline-wxp-nld.iso
821 MB, 181 applicable updates

From each of these virtual DVDs, I tin now use the UpdateInstaller.exe executable to update 32-flake installations of Windows XP without an net connection, without hassle.

Concluding

WSUS Offline allows you to download updates for Windows XP (and Office 2013) to update them with Microsoft updates, once and for all. After that, you can easily run the executable from the (virtual) DVD or USB drive to update Windows XP without an internet and/or network connection, without hassle.

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