I just tried Simplix and wanted to report back my experience. But due to Operator Error I had some problems so I thought I let you guys know what happened so you don't repeat my mistakes. One of the options was to choose where the temp files are located. I figured that it would be best to store the temp files on the working partition rather than the boot partition in case something went wrong. This turned out to be a big mistake on my part. Another option is to choose which version or index to the version you want to install. Me, being a pig, selected them all with the * option. The program ran and downloaded the updates. I happened to notice it was downloading updates for the Starter Edition, and didn't think anything about it at the time. It was taking a while, so I went off and did some other stuff. This turned out to be another big mistake. Now we got two big ones. When I got back I noticed that it was downloading the same 154 updates for Home Premium and then it hit me. By selecting all of them (using the * option) it was download all the updates for all the versions, and that would be almost 750 of them before it was all done. And the resulting file would probably be huge, so I Ctrl-C the batch file, and exited the program. Then I went to delete the files that had been created, and couldn't. The system had them locked, and wouldn't let me delete them. NBD, I just booted off another hard drive, and much to my surprise I couldn't delete them either. Looking at the properties, I could see that they were owned by the Trusted Installer, whoever that was. I searched around, but couldn't find any way around the problem. I figured I could boot off Linux Mint and delete the files that way, but then that might cause more problems. The real PITA was that the working partition I was using was 500GB and although I had an image of it, I had also downloaded many, many files from Digital River, after the links were restored...yesterday. All of them had to be located, and copied to the backup drive. Once that was done, I formatted the partition, and copied all the files back. It would have been so much easier, to image my boot drive, since it's only 30GB, then select the option to use the users\appdata\local\temp batch file, and NOT to select all of the versions in Simplix. Then if something went wrong, just restore the image, and in 10 minutes all would be well. As it turned out, it cost me a couple of hours to get it all straightened out. Moving right along, I went back to square one, and extracted the .wim file from the Digital River image, ran Simplix, chose the local drive for the temp file, and selected Windows Professional as the version to get updates. It did it's thing, and at the completion of the program I took a look at the temp directory, fearing the worst. It was empty. Simplix had cleaned up nicely after itself and there were no problems with Trusted Installer files. The rest was uneventful. I copied the .wim file back to the sources directory, noting that it was 500MB larger than the original. Then created a bootable iso with ImgBurn, and then used Rufus to copy that bootable iso to a USB drive. I shut the computer down, put the USB stick in and started it up to boot off the USB drive. It did and Windows installed as expected. Windows Update was happy, so was I. Then I got to thinking I wonder what would happen if I deleted the ei.cfg from the sources directory and ran everything again with the Simplix updates for Windows Professional. So I deleted the ei.cfg remade the iso and burned it to a USB drive. This time, as expected I was given the choice of versions to install. I chose Ultimate, and the installation concluded successfully. When it restarted, I had Windows Ultimate, and when I went to Windows Update, it only installed 2 updates. It looks like the updates for Professional and Ultimate are pretty much the same, meaning you can just select one using Simplix and then delete the ei.cfg file, and you can then install any version with the Windows installation program and not have to deal with a lot of updates. One other thing I noticed that was very different. In the past, whenever I installed Ultimate, you only got three days of eval. With this installation of Ultimate it showed 30 days left. I don't know if that's because I selected Professional version (which has 30 day eval) in Simplix or if the newer images of Ultimate have a 30 day eval. A new feature maybe? Bottom line, Simplix works great, exactly as advertised, and once the image is copied to a USB drive, the installation of Windows goes very quickly.
Simplix tool mounts the WIM file what registers this file in the system. In case the WIM isn't properly unmounted, you won't be able to delete the files . That needs a /discard what will wipe the mount folder. Afaik you only update the mounted SKU not any other . After installing Win 7 SP1 afair it installs a Servicing Stack Update and then after reboot if you check WU it should offer several Updates.
I figured it would be some simple command, but I had no clue as to what it might be. I tried taking ownership of the files, changing attributes, nothing worked. But I found it odd that even when the drive was mounted as a slave, I still couldn't delete the files. Nope, just two small updates, although I didn't bother to make a note of what they were.
Oh, I didn't know that. I thought it was downloading them from Microsoft. Shows you what I know. Seems to me the * option is a bit redundant then. If all of the updates are in the file UpdatePack7R2-14.5.1 and since they are pretty much the same, at least for Professional and Ultimate, why not just eliminate the option, because selecting it increases the processing time by a factor of five. I'm sure you had a good reason for including it, maybe some cheese, for us digital packrats.
Command * is used to make AIO. On the other side by choosing command alternatively 1,2,3,4 or 5 etc is if you choose to use only one particular image Basic, Pro, Ultimate..
Integrate Update and Install on PC got Embeded Lockdown Manager Installed on my system. What is that?