I will try another install today but yesterday I did a clean Win7Entx64 with Office 2010x86 with the "slipstreamed" SP2 ONLY (I had deleted all the files that were previously in the updates folder)and when we ran MSU it showed nothing so based on what your stating I am confused
I did the same thing except my operating system & Office 2010 are 64 bits & there's no additional updates.
What I really mean is that after installing SP2 to Office 2010 RTM, do not run Windows Update. You just straight away install the latest msp files from McRip's Office 2010 repo. I believe that it should work, since the version number of the hotfixes are higher than of SP2 msp files. For sure, Windows Update only offers public updates, but not such cumulative updates (the ones in McRip's Office 2010 repo). In my opinion, just install the proof-xx-xx.msp corresponding to your language. For me, I install only proof-en-us.msp.
It must be me but I don't get it... my last update of McRip's Office Repo (can't get to it now) using the WinToolKit downloaded 411 msp files... are you saying that they are all newer than the files in SP2 and need to be added or are you picking specific files for some reason that I am not aware of?
I can't access: hotfix2.cesidian.info win8.cesidian.info burf.cesidian.info Are these currently down?
They all all down 'permanently' via web access, apart from the changelogs for win8 (Windows 8) and hotfix2 (Windows 7). To download the updates from those sites, you need to use 'Windows Hotfix Downloader'. My stuff is available through the link in my signature. I will probably look at url redirection to that page at some point in the future, just to simplify things.
New version of W7 KUC is available but fails with 'Error 53: File not found' just as it is about to display the hotfix spreadsheet with CSVFileView. The spreadsheet can be opened manually but doesn't open automatically as it used to.