Sue to some more alterations won't have the test version up tonight my time (its 10:40pm Tuesday here). It should be pretty good though speed wise by the time its finished though! Sometimes the syntax is what is a bit of a slowdown - what you think should work doesn't, which can be frustrating at times!
I think I know your problem; you see 2530548 for IE8 is green in the sheet. That is an error in the sheet. 2530548 is available for IE8 and IE9; that's the problem. I will correct that in the next version. The green color is reserved for "Solor's latest for Win7". That means: no server only updates, RSAT updates or IE8 updates should be marked green. Example for finding the latest IE8 updates using the Excel sheet: 1.Select IE8 in the filter of "Type" 2.Select empty for the filter of "New KB-Number" 3.so 2530548; 2529406;2544521; 2510531 are the current updates needed for IE8
Hi mate, I believe this installer is broken, I've tried slipstreaming it as an svcpack in my windows 7 install which resulted in hanging during the "completing installation" phase. I was thinking perhaps it was one of the addons causing the issue as removing all my addons fixed it. However, the only installer to fail in Windows during installation was this one. I have used your previous NET4 release without issues Cheers
Just corrected a type, it won't affect the operation of the script Due to the IE9 update having a slightly different cabinet name, being IE9-Windows6.1-KB2530548-x64.cab and IE9-Windows6.1-KB2530548-x86.cab, the 'IE9-' part needs to be removed so it installs after the installation of IE9. Due to the typo, the renaming of the cabinet in the temp folder did not occur meaning it was installing before IE9, which as you can imagine wouldn't make much sense...
If there aren't any noticeable issues with the test I'll add the integration etc in the next couple of days. I'll also update the information pages etc. The main thing is the intended install. For fresh installs the first option should definitely be quicker than before. For installs where there are already most of the updates installed choose the option 3 from the cab install menu, and it should also be quicker than option 3 before! There is no harm in choosing option 1, it will just take more time than it would have otherwise. For people testing it out, give option 1 a run and let me know how things go!
@burfadel testing option 1 on a VM with a freshly installed win7 x64 sp1. ran the cmd in a folder with 204 updates. actually it did not work the first time i tried it. After the "finding gdr and ldr updates" process it flashed a few lines of text on the command prompt for just a second , i'm sure i saw the word error in it. then it says installation complete and no reboot is required. after i rebooted no files were updated. ( maybe this happened since i directly resumed the VM from last used state) Ran the cmd again , it found the cabtemp wasnt empty. started option 1 and it is working well so far
Hmm, weird the second time it worked and the first time it didn't! I did find if the lists were too large it ended in that exact problem. Actually writing this line I just thought of a better way again of doing it (if it works), I'll have to write it down somewhere and try it out when its not 6:35AM on a Thursday morning
haha ok. and also the process is extremely slow(!) its been about 1.5 hours now with 40 updates remaining :| almost sure thats due to running in a vm with 1 GB ram
Do we have to remove IE9- from the file name of IE9-Windows6.1-KB2530548-x64.msu? Or, the updated script will complete that step on its own?
Update script will do that on its own It will also install kb9x updates before kb2x updates. The main reason why it has to be done is if you install in filename ordner (such as you start at kb20x and finish at kb29x (those numbers are nust examples), it will install first because 'I' in ie9- comes before 'W' for the rest of the updates that don't have the prefix. Hope the test script works well at the moment I'm assuming its working for people?
Have not had time to test the new test 3, already did a fresh install with test 1 @ afk I dont think you have to rename it, I did not with test 1 of the script BTW new Outlook Connector and Live Essentials are out
Just had a look at that link, the difference is that one is packaged as a MSI installer I opened it in 7-zip, and inside is the installer which is pretty much the same as the other one for IE, same version, same install style, slightly different size probably due to the way it was packaged together. Basically the MSI installer is a slightly slower way of achieving the same outcome, and the MSI part of the installer actually adds close to a 1MB to the package size...