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manolito · 17th June 2018, 18:55

Did another test, this time "the works". Source CD was WinXP 32 SP3 Pro Corporate (SP3 slipstreamed into an earlier CD), and also injected the Intel IASTOR AHCI drivers. Of course the AHCI drivers were not used because my computer only has an IDE HDD interface, and the BIOS does not know a thing about SATA or AHCI.

For the update installation this time I selected everything except the WMP update. (dotNet, IE8, VC redist, DirectX) The dotNet stuff slowed down the update to a crawl (the whole dotNet update stuff is a major PITA IMO, whoever programmed this crap at Microsoft should be sent to a Singapore prison and receive at least 20 cane strokes on the bare).

But still, everything went well, all updates were installed without any error messages. So I feel that I am well prepared for a fresh install of WinXP...

Cheers
manolito

(Tomorrow it's off to Scotland, I won't post for the next 2 weeks...)

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manolito Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 3,079	Did another test, this time "the works". Source CD was WinXP 32 SP3 Pro Corporate (SP3 slipstreamed into an earlier CD), and also injected the Intel IASTOR AHCI drivers. Of course the AHCI drivers were not used because my computer only has an IDE HDD interface, and the BIOS does not know a thing about SATA or AHCI. For the update installation this time I selected everything except the WMP update. (dotNet, IE8, VC redist, DirectX) The dotNet stuff slowed down the update to a crawl (the whole dotNet update stuff is a major PITA IMO, whoever programmed this crap at Microsoft should be sent to a Singapore prison and receive at least 20 cane strokes on the bare). But still, everything went well, all updates were installed without any error messages. So I feel that I am well prepared for a fresh install of WinXP... Cheers manolito (Tomorrow it's off to Scotland, I won't post for the next 2 weeks...)