UpdateVista from SP2 to 2025-01 Script

Hello! It is fair to be confused about the windows update. I need to find the time and do some cosmetic changes (namely to remove the message regarding windows update scanning for updates).
The official Windows update doesn't work since April due to lack of certain cipher suites for vista. What you did in post 21 of Captain's guide is that you used a proxie server for the updates (I am not sure if legacy update is a proxie for the official servers or it is hosting the updates itself actually).

My script was created with too goals in mind.
1. Offline updating in the tracks of simplix pack
2. A way to backup all the relevant updates locally for when M$ pulls the plug on hosting the updates for windows 6.0.
Therefore adding legacy update in the script is not a priority. Although I might work on it in the future.

Another thing though is that you used the script from January. You should use the latest one (currently June).

Thank you for using my script

 

Let me know what steps you did i regards with the legacy update registry fix. I have tried in two VMs and I did nothing for me. I guess I should try on a fresh install..
Nice to hear that you love the script

 

Go into 001-Tools: Extract NDP462-Repack-x86-x64-ENU_20240514.zip and run the executable. This is the repack that abbodi has made. Restart and you are done.
The script doesn't not detect specific version of .net 4.6.2, only if it is installed or not. The result is that it ignores the repack if .net 4.6.2 is installed even if it is not the latest version.

 

The script is now updated with 2024-08 updates. I also changed the final message so that people don't wait for ever for windows update to show updates

Edit:
I re-uploaded with few changes. First I managed to get Legacy update to work and I realized that I was missing the .net2.0 3.0 update. Second I realized that abbodi's repacks detect if there is a need to be installed or not and therefore I just call those installs by default. 7zip is also updated to latest version.

 

The script is now updated to 2024-09. I also did some big changes in the script so I decided to bump the version to 1.00. See the changelog for details.
In short I added conditional executions almost everywhere, added the legacy update registry fix, and removed a lot of GOTOs in favor of conditionals. One year of studying C++ started to show some fruits.
I had so many moments of "wtf was I thinking here"...
Still there is a lot that can be done..

 

The links have been updated for 2024-10. I have added some settings into the scripts with variables that are placed on the very top and can be changed easily.
backup == 0 --> The script will download only missing updates for the correct architecture.
backup == 1 --> Everything will be downloaded if you want to archive the updates.
PIng_timer (in seconds) --> Controls for how long the echo messages will be shown.
shutdown_mode --> Controls what will happen after each pass. Either restart or shutdown. In virtualbox 7.0.20 my vm would crash after restart if it was happening automatically.
shutdown_timer --> Self explanatory.
IE9KB --> The internet explorer cumulative update so that I don't have search somewhere in the middle of the script every time we have an update...

I haven't been able to test x86 vista version because I couldn't even install it any more on vbox 7.0.20 (if anyone has a solution about the vbox hiccups please let me know). People with x86 installations please let me know if there is any problem.
If all goes well I will upload the script in the next hour after I finish my last test.

By the way I am interested in rewriting the script in c/c++. (Ideally C) If anyone can help me understand how to interact with windows in C/C++ let me know

 

Thank you I will have a look!
@dudeluv Do me a favor and open the download extract smart script and in lines 7-14 change:

Code:

if exist "%WinDir%\SysWOW64" (
    set "arch=x64"
    set "bit=64"
) else (
    set "arch=x86"
    set "bit=32"
)

to

Code:

set "arch=x86"
set "bit=32"
if exist "%WinDir%\SysWOW64" (
    set "arch=x64"
    set "bit=64"
)

See if it works with this change.