Status report
Posted by Lyndon Brown on April 26th, 2007 |
We're nearly there now, i'd say at very least 95% of the work has been completed on the new releases. Really sorry it's taking so long to complete them, especially to those who are waiting for CD/DVD orders to be fulfilled. You can find precise details of exactly whats left to be done in the new progress report.
On another note, Antonis is not the only one having hardware issues, i just tried to resize the partitions on my external USB hard drive, it failed and now i'm looking at a huge loss of data if i can't recover it :(, luckily none of it relating to AutoPatcher. Also, i have my practical driving test tomorrow :)
Lyndon
April 26th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Good luck with your driving test! :)
April 26th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I had the same problem in the past…
I can recommend you… to use the grc.com program…Spinrite.
It will, i can asure, fix your harddisk.
April 26th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Again, the very best wishes for the driving test!
And another one who’s skin has been saved in the past by Spinrite. While it will want to run in FreeDOS (as supplied), there are USB drivers for DOS that enable most drives. [An earlier version used to run in WIndows]
April 26th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Good luck with your driving test tomorrow.
But this reeks more and more of becoming a May release, not a April release…
Enough complaining; good luck with what’s left to do! Looking forward to soon being up-to-date WinXP-wise.
April 26th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
I have been bitten in the past for daring to resize ntfs partitions. I promised to never do it again, and so far I have not. Didn’t help though, since for some strange reason, Windows decided to turn its own, primary partition, sda1, into an extended one and then move itself there as sda5 (2-4 were already taken). Of course Windows never managed to boot again.
Moral lesson: Do not, ever, let Windows manage your partitions. Don’t resize, don’t split, don’t even create them, if possible.
I know I sound like a Windows-hater, but I cannot understand why Windows cannot cope with simple filesystem and partitioning tasks.
There you have it. My Windows-related rant of the month! Sometimes I feel like giving up on it and just run it in a VM.
April 26th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Good luck for tomorrow Blaze! :)
April 27th, 2007 at 3:36 am
hi,
thats nice to hear about 95% work done.
for partions, i use partion magic - resized/adjusted/deleted/modified my drive to many time (its NTFS system) without a glitch (i think - its touchwood).. recommend u that to use…
April 27th, 2007 at 4:29 am
Re the external USB hard drive: I’ve been there too and was rescued by PC Inspector file recovery.
(http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm)
but it’s a bit unstable so it might work but it might not.
Thanks for the effort with AP.
April 27th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Ehh the driving test hopefully better as the crash of your drive. Succeeded?
Maybe AP better wait for the May updates and so have a full May AP? Lot of people waiting for the autopatcher. Very good work and better late and good as sooner and worse.
(I used Partition Magic and always worked perfect)
April 27th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Acronis Disk Director 10 integrated with True Image is better for resizing partitions than Partition Magic -which in the past, I’ve seen mess up a boot drive - it’s also better than the Paragon range of disk mgt. tools, an early version of which wrote totally false partition sizes to disk, also promptly trashing a boot drive.
April 27th, 2007 at 5:56 am
Lyndon, I’ve had the same problem not so long ago and the only thing that did the trick was to quick format the partition and use File Scavanger. Give it a try, i hope it works for you too.
Btw, nice work guys on this whole Autopatcher idea, and Lyndon - did you pass the test? :)
April 27th, 2007 at 7:24 am
ooooo…..nasty. good luck with driving test.
had a similar problem with my hdd a few weeks ago. A conversion of NTFS to fat32 went bad and all of a sudden i had a ntfs drive with a fat32 boot sector :s hope ur’s is not as bad as mine was to recover. (manual sector edit)
April 27th, 2007 at 7:32 am
P.S.
Think u should have ie6 updates in the release (detect ie6?)
April 27th, 2007 at 9:46 am
I volunteer for several projects myself and can really appreciate what your team is going through. Here are some of my suggestions.
What about releasing just the core for English XP 32 bit for download? Judging by the download stats that is the most wanted of the packages. This will give you some feedback on the new version and you can release a new full core next month if you want or need to. You can still hold off on the CD and DVD shipments until the extras are ready.
Why not make IE6 an extra pack for the ones that want or need it. If you have a lot of downloads for IE6 you can merge it in to the core on a later release.
I think that the core and extras idea is a very good one. It allows for more flexibility in both the releases and what people download.
Trying to do everything at once and having a “Grand Opening†release date is why Vista took so long. Why not roll the packs out over a longer period of time? After you have everything released you can go back to a regular schedule.
You could put a separate version of the core release on the same disk as the patched February to be run separately and call it a pre-release. Let the people who ordered a CD or DVD decide if the want a pre-release or wait for the full release. They will probably order a new release later.
What about a DVD subscription? One transaction fee on the purchase could lower your cost.
Your team is doing a great job, thank you very much for all your hard work.
April 27th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Thanks for all the work. Good luck on your driving test . I wish you the best for recovering your hhd,
April 27th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
i failed my damn driving test! i was nervius and got three “serious” faults (get one and you fail) all of which i think are really stupid:
1) first of all taking off, not far behind me there was a roundabout, a car was joining my road (which i saw), i judged that i could get out before it, the car sped up a lot and ended up having to wait behind me while i came out. the examiner said that i should have waited even thought i was at least half way over the line and let it overtake which if you saw the situation is ridiculous!
2) wanted me to do a parallel park, i was getting ready to move off from behind it to begin, noticed a van was coming along so i canceled my indicator, i thought it was going ahead so i put it back on ready, then it went behind me so i turned it off again, the van driver waited behind me so i had to wave him through. the examiner believes because i apparently “confused” the other driver that it was a serious fault…
3) turn in the road, remote location with no-one around, the car i’m driving is really difficult to see out the back so i need to use the side mirrors, he said my observation was pefect except that i didn’t look out the back. if it wasn’t 100% confident no-one was there and wasn’t concentrating so hard on the pavement in my side mirrors (v. difficult to see) i would have…
i think those are all stupid “serious” faults, i’m a perfectly good driver, i’ve been doing it for over a year, i’ve driven at night several times, in seriously bad rain, i’ve driven down in cornwall, and also up in scotland with steep drops on the side of the roads.
now i’m pissed off because of just how much money i’ve spent on all this: a huge amount on lessons (should have started after the theory test and not done so many lessons); 3x theory test at ~£40 a time (couldn’t find the place on the first go so i missed it, second go i failed because of the stupid new ‘hazard perception’ test and i could start a whole new rant about how ridiculous that is); and then now i need to shell out for a third practical test (~£50 a go), and i have to do it the day before my 21st bday.
[/end-rant]
April 27th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Mate, I totally understand what you’re saying here. I’m from Poland and you just wouldn’t believe how freakin’ hard it is to pass the driving exam here. Basically it’s a lottery - either you pass or you don’t - actual driving skills don’t matter at all. A goddamn lottery. I’m sure glad I passed it a few years ago because apparently it’s getting worse and worse. The good thing is that, believe me, after you finally get, all that lead to getting it in the first place doesn’t matter. After a couple of months you just don’t give a damn about it. And as for today - go and get stoned, vent your anger with a glass of pint and you’ll be ok. Good luck with the retake.
April 27th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
“After you finally get IT” of ‘coz :) Cheers mate!
April 27th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Pfft, some of us drive with no license. As sad as it may sound, the driving license is no indication of how well one drives.
April 27th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Hey Lyndon,
At what stage of partition resizing did it fail? I hosed my internal IDE drive while using gparted to resize the 3 NTFS partitions. Afterwards partition magic couldn’t even work with the drive because of the corruption. So I used the DOS version of TestDisk, and it fixed the problems easily. It would, however, depend on when the resizing failed.
April 28th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Almost ready*
almost = 2-3-4 weeks.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Sure hope Lyndon’s working on the releases because the progress report didn’t move a muscle since Friday. Guys pleeeaaaseee…… [Begging stance on]
April 28th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
@Patient patient, right now i’m trying to fix my hard drive, the lost partition has turned into a nasty problem. i managed to get back into the partition however a lot of data seems to be corrupt, 30GB of disk space is missing (which i pray to god explains it and that i can get the system to find it somehow), and there are now problems with the partitions on my laptop hard drive… :(
if i have to i’ll try to work through it all and get the releases done first… (none of my autopatcher work is affected)
April 29th, 2007 at 12:13 am
oh god !!
oh son of god !!
oh sister of god !!
oh father of god !!
29th April
Still wait….
may be….
next main releases is May 2k7
Still shooting for an April release, or are we looking at May? April’s to an end in 1 day!
April 29th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Come on guys, if you are that deperate for an update use Windows Update - it works. Your system will be at least updated to February…so not that much to download.
Let the guy off the hook, we all have issues and his sound relatively serious at the minute.
Who cares when the release is done, if it is this side of christmas I will be happy.
If you want someboldy to help you - it doesn’t help critisising, even if it’s not meant…
Hell, I know if I just failed my driving test I would have been on a real bender afterwards…headache here we come…
April 29th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Try:
Recover My Files
Ontrack EasyRecovery DataRecovery
Partition Table Doctor
From now on, do always backups.
If you didn’t backup your data, maybe it wasn’t so important, so walk on and don’t waste your time.
It is sad you didn’t pass the exam, but I wouldn’t put most of the faults on the examiner, neither I would say, like Kaladis did, “the license is not useful, I drive better than everyone else and (maybe?) I don’t have it”.
You DO NOT drive well if you are only “good at driving a car”.
You drive well when you can concentrate on what other drivers do, and are able to anticipate their faults (or are able to help their manoeuvres).
Driving a car is just an easy and pretty stupid automated task.
For the exam, remember that you DON’T HAVE to drive “GOOD”. You have to drive “AS EXAMINER WANTS”.
It seems that your examiner wants you not to be an obstacle to other drivers: just satisfy him.
Back on topic: there will be a chance to see Autopatcher before SP3?
I understand it is not so kind to say, but there are people who paid on February……
You were able to make a release per month, and now there are problems even with a 2+month delay: is there anything else wrong?
April 29th, 2007 at 8:56 am
my suggestion for hdd recovery: getdataback for ntfs - http://www.runtime.org -> did the job for me.the most reliable i found, and I tried a lot
April 29th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Oh man, I remember my first driving test for my P’s. Basically I was so nervous I forgot to check for oncoming traffic when turning lol :P That was 20seconds into the test… and had to do the rest knowing I’d already failed :(
Thats about 4 years ago, but now it is fairly easy to tell what other drivers are going to do, like for example just yesterday, I was going straight ahead on a two lane roundabout, and from the way a car was acting I could tell they were going to turn in and cut me off. I’d already *sighed* and slowed right down by the time they did. Lucky for me, and them ;)
Anyway, creating a brand new version of one of the greatest programs on Earth would take a while, and I expect that. If you only keep us updated on your progress, we should all be happy about that.
I can’t wait, and when it is done, get reading for plenty of “Thanks You”s! :D
April 30th, 2007 at 8:36 am
I have E type license but, im not perfect too while driving. Good luck next time.
April 30th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Too bad about the test. Like MiK said - you have to drive like they want you to. I failed my first test (in Israel) because the examiner took me through a point where I couldn’t see I was in a time controlled HoV lane.
When I came to NY, I found out I needed to take the tests here. I had to forget my 20 yr. experience, and drive like a student before I got passed.
As to Autopatcher, a good product is worth waiting for. I don’t mind waiting for Autopatcher. Don’t get too pressured. Just do your thing, and we’ll wait for you.
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April 30th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
jus goin thru ur update report n what i concluded was u’re almost 98% done…. hopin for the release in next few days(1 or 2)…
May 1st, 2007 at 8:43 am
To Lyndon and Antonis:
Guys I do understand that with such an upgrade like this one (5.1->5.6), things need much more time than usual. However in my opinion you should at least be more informative. Especially as far as the homepage is concerned. The last piece of news (the one I’m commenting right now on) is from when? April 26th! This would be perfectly normal provided there were usual releases given for the past months. But now when thousands (hundreds of thousands?) eagerly await the (eternally postponed) new release it should be one of your highest priorities to inform people about everything that’s going on. It doesn’t take much time to write 5 sentences for the website. Look at the date! It’s 1st May and you haven’t told us anything!
You know, one of the main themes in the Spider-Man comic books was “WITH GREAT POWER, THERE COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY”. Please - have that in mind. Cheers.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Dude…they are doing this for FREE, as in they get NO COMPENSATION WHATSOEVER, other than the respect and recognition of being truly awesome. Just the fact that they are willing to do this is enough, I don’t think that we should ask anymore from them.
May 1st, 2007 at 3:50 pm
I disagree…I have been eagerly awaiting the new AutoPatcher release, and am on this site 2-3 times a day checking if it has come out yet. I COMPLETELY understand that the conversion of AutoPatcher from v5.1 to v5.6 is time-consuming, and I feel no right (nor should i) to demand Lyndon and Antonis work faster. All I and JP are asking is a quick heads-up as to what’s going on in the conversion process. It has been almost a week since we have heard anything! All we ask is a quick update as to how long we should be expecting to wait, and we will wait as long as the AutoPatcher team needs. Thank you for all your hard work AutoPatcher team!!! AutoPatcher is awesome!
May 1st, 2007 at 3:59 pm
@recent comments: if you check the link in this blog post you would see the last thing i did was on the 27th not the 26th as JP said. and then if you read comment #23 you would see that on the 28th i said i was spending some time to fix my hard drive problems which was only three days ago. i’ve solved some of my problems but not all of them, however i decided to put it aside and get back to the autopatcher releases, and if you now check the link i mentioned you’ll see i’ve crossed another thing off the list today ;)
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:27 am
Try
http://www.stellarinfo.com/recovery-software.htm
to establish the presence of lost files and directories, demo version will be good enough.
Use Acronis Disk Director to recover them.
Tried that two weeks ago on my USB HDD, almost rendered HDD useless when the USB was pulled out accidentally while running. If it is NTFSFAT issues, Acronis can do wonder.
Two more things:
1) A/P is truely awesome
2) Good product is worth waiting for, so take your time.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:44 am
Lyndon… sorry to hear about your driving test! I can only imagine how frustrating that must be. Here in the states they hand licenses out to anyone who can walk (and to some who can’t)!! And I’m not saying that’s a good thing… perhaps the licensing process here should be more selective… but it sure sounds a lot easier! One tip - tests tent to make us anxious… do your best to stay calm. Good luck next time!
And thanks for all your hard work… AutoPatcher is awesome!
May 2nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Hey Lyndon,
I’m really sorry to see so many people complaining about your progress. Like everybody I’ve been waiting to see the new autopatcher but the previous version still does 90% of what I need so its not a problem.
I really do want to take the time to compliment you on all of the work you’ve done so far. I am currently finishing up an advanced networking course and am incredibly impressed by the quality of your work. Theres very few people your age putting such a great effort into an unpaid project.
Please don’t get discouraged. Good luck with your hardware problems.
Michael
May 2nd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
if its possible can i and the rest of the auto patcher world please get an eta when the next release will be available
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:14 pm
You should told the instructor that you are the creator of autopatcher and that will save him, his uncle,kids,wife a lot of time when rebuilding their PC. For that you should get your driving license.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Thanks a million for all the work on Autopatcher. Itls saved me so much time and hassle.
And I hope the god of all things mechanical has smiled upon you in all the right ways this last week!
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:01 pm
OK. So we’re dying here… how’d the driving test go?
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:03 pm
ignore that… I didn’t see the update in the comments… must be going blind!!!
May 3rd, 2007 at 2:18 am
AutoPatcher May 2007 Progress: NO PATCHES YET!
So what now? No April release either. I knew the team has real life and whatnot, but I’m very apprehensive about the future of this project. Right now I’m waiting for the full release before I’m going to clean-format my PC again.
Here’s hoping that the team can release the ultimate May release (yup, ULTIMATE for the final end build of XP autopatcher) cuz I’m getting nervous that this project will going to doom prematurely.
Hurry up guys. ^^;
May 3rd, 2007 at 4:30 am
Hard luck with the driving test. Here in ireland the wait for the driving test is on average 9 months wait and then examiners have to have a 20% failure rate. I was one of the lucky ones. My brother happened to see the form as the examiner sat into his car and he already had faild my brother.
as for autopatcher ignore all the nay sayers and doom merchants. keep up the good work and i’m happy to wait for my DVD.
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:44 am
The project is far from dead, don’t worry.
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Thanx for the assurance, Renato. :D I’m going to wait silently now… keep up the quality releases then. ^^
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Keep up the good work! You have saved me a lot of time (time=money). Thank you for your service
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:38 pm
No problem Astral_Dreamerz. ;)
I released Vista release before because I was a bit ahead with v5.6 implementation/testing than Blaze, and because it’s a way smaller version (not as many hotfixes as XP, 2000, 2003).
And Blaze is doing a really great job. You’ll see it and say that it worth the wait. :)
May 3rd, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Posting 5 sentences might not take long, but it usually needs to fit in the schedule. It might sound a little weird, but sometimes fitting a 5 minute task in our schedule costs more than just 5 minutes. We can’t be 100% focused all the time, and switching between tasks usually affects just that. The task might require 5 mins, but the brain needs about 30minutes in order to regain the focus lost. This is a lot like context switching in an operating systems cpu scheduling, so most of you won’t have trouble understanding this. The only difference is that a cpu ‘regains focus’ almost instantly.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Alright, fair enough Antonis. I guess we can deal with that.
May 5th, 2007 at 8:44 am
I hope we will see new AP soon after next tuesday, because…
On Tuesday 8 May 2007 Microsoft is planning to release:
Security Updates
• Two Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
• Three Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Office. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates may require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
• One Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Exchange. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will not require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
• One Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting CAPICOM and BizTalk. The highest Maximum Severity rating for these is Critical. These updates will not require a restart. These updates will be detectable using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and the Enterprise Scan Tool.
Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
• Microsoft will release an updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool on Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows Server Update Services and the Download Center.
Note that this tool will NOT be distributed using Software Update Services (SUS).
Non-security High Priority updates on MU, WU, WSUS and SUS
• Microsoft will release 1 NON-SECURITY High-Priority Update for Windows on Windows Update (WU) and Software Update Services (SUS).
• Microsoft will release 6 NON-SECURITY High-Priority Updates on Microsoft Update (MU) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
May 5th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Hi -here is how to get your data back. Remove the drive from your USB box, and mount in Windows XP. Hopefully, it will NOT appear in your “my computer.” (If it does, it will either work (good) or no folders will be in it and windows might write “System Volume Information.” (bad.) Check in Computer Management, Disk management, it should be there. Then use GetDataBack for NTFS. If it’s there GetDataBack will recover it. GDB is almost always on Usenet. For further info email me.
I have 2 terrabytes on 14 drives. I loose them daily it seems. I have never failed to recover a drive unless it is a hardware problem, and I even got some of those.
May 5th, 2007 at 9:39 am
just to reply to all the people with data recovery suggestions. i posted a message asking for help in the neowin forum a while ago, unfortunately i got very few replies. i started to work on the problem myself and sorted several things. heres the state things are currently in: 1) i have regained access to all of the data, however a good amount of it is corrupt. i can repair most of it myself however not all of it. the usual data recovery software will not work because the files are not ‘lost’ they are just broken, probably because partition magic crashed whilst moving data. it’s frustrating because i know the data required to repair the files must still be on the drive, probably now part of the ‘free space’, i just have no idea whether i can somehow find the data and repair the broken files. i do not have high hopes for that. even so, i’m not going to use the drive until after i have finished the autopatcher releases and done some research. 2) there are also problems with my laptop hard drive, there are some bad sectors on the drive and i may have to buy a new one. it has 8 bad sectors (4KB / 1x cluster) in the last 1.5 GB of the 60GB disk. i don’t know whether this is a good enough reason to shell out money for a new disk but it’s certainly a pain because i partition the drive and make use of that space.
May 5th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Hey!
I had a similar problem a few years ago. I was moving a partition on my drive (using partition magic). Then the power went… Lost a lot of music. Now i don’t move my partitons around.
May 5th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
for the bad sectors thing…just isolate that area, just dont make any partition there.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:25 am
I’m unable to register on the forums…
AutoPatcher.exe Nov 2006 Lite XP & 2000 both crash before displaying window when trying to run them under Virtual PC 7.0.2.
Both XP & W2K show the crash at the exact same location in each version of AutoPatcher. Here is the W2K Dr. Watson snapshot:
eax=000575f4 ebx=7c5388f4 ecx=00000000 edx=00000681 esi=00464992 edi=00464992
eip=004636de esp=0012ffa4 ebp=0046307f iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na po nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000246
function:
004636cc 32c3 xor al,bl
004636ce fec0 inc al
004636d0 34c1 xor al,0xc1
004636d2 eb02 jmp 004703d6
004636d4 cd20 int 20
004636d6 047b add al,0×7b
004636d8 aa stosb es:00464992=85
004636d9 8ad8 mov bl,al
004636db 49 dec ecx
004636dc 7fed jg 0046c4cb
FAULT ->004636de 8d741500 lea esi,[ebp+edx+0x0] ss:00a7a568=????????
004636e2 83c21e add edx,0×1e
004636e5 8bfe mov edi,esi
004636e7 b992120000 mov ecx,0×1292
004636ec 6633db xor bx,bx
004636ef ac lodsb ds:00464992=85
004636f0 32c3 xor al,bl
004636f2 0401 add al,0×1
004636f4 34f5 xor al,0xf5
004636f6 c0c005 rol al,0×5
004636f9 aa stosb es:00464992=85
004636fa 8ad8 mov bl,al
*—-> Stack Back Trace
46458D5D 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
May 6th, 2007 at 8:10 am
@Amdahl
1) what problem are you experiencing with the registration? it may be that we can contact someone on your behalf to fix it.
2) about the crash. update nov06 full with the KB925902 patch release which includes a new copy of autopatcher.exe with some fixes for when it’s run in a virtual enviroment. if that solves it then install dec06 update + jan07 update + feb07 update + KB925902 patch again. and you’ll have all the latest stuff.
May 6th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Lyndon,
Yes, the KB925902 version of AutoPatcher.exe works on both XP & W2K.
Thanks!
May 6th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Looks like we can either
a) plan for a release right before a bunch of new updates come out, essentially rendering the tool incomplete
b) plan for inclusion of those new updates, further extending delays until sometime late October
c) who are we kidding? this is vaporware
May 7th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Cyclops, this is not vaproware. If you would bother to read almost ANYTHING on the main page (as i’m sure you didnt), AP is being converted to a new version, and that takes a lot of time. So there, now you know why this isn’t vaporware. Before you go flinging accusations, please get your facts right.
May 7th, 2007 at 5:39 am
When you know you are doing your best, all the squawkin’ is just fluff in the wind. I ordered the DVD and I will wait even if you decide to include the May 8th updates. It is better to wait for good rather than have crap in your hand! ’nuff said.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:35 am
Thank you very much for all your hard work! We appreciate it very much. I advise you to make this release a May 2007 one and than to take a 2- week relaxing break.
Best wishes!
May 7th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Yep, might as well include the new updates coming out. Track down the people who are complaining about it and make them pay for it when it releases :P Apparently they feel they are contributing in some way if they are demanding it be done sooner, so make them contribute about $500 each to the cause :P
May 7th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Yes, please include the latest updates. We will wait as long as it takes.
May 7th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
OMG, you still haven’t released my free AP! Do you think I like sitting and waiting for you to finish it, you lazy bastards! I don’t care that you’re doing this for free, you’re so unprofessional. I’ll never ever buy anything else from you…ever! :)))))
Seriously, I second Mason’s proposal.
May 8th, 2007 at 2:23 am
Hey guys, I just want to thank you for your hard work!
I agree with Hashte, I think this should be a May release, with all May updates included, and I surely agree with him you have to take two weeks holidays after all this stuff :)
Thank you again!
May 8th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Keep up the good work guys! No matter how long it takes, we appreciate what you’re doing. Looking forward to seeing the result once it’s ready :)
May 9th, 2007 at 1:29 am
you lost all your credibility.
May 9th, 2007 at 3:44 am
Rolph, what you said is ridiculous.
H.
May 9th, 2007 at 3:49 am
We lost our credibility? Why? Because we are a company and we are paid to release the software in a specific date?
Instead of being complaining, try to help. Or at least try to think that we are doing this in our spare time.
May 9th, 2007 at 4:19 am
Team,
Autopatcher is a great idea, don’t mind the guys who want things for free, don’t contribute at all and even complain.
I’ll wait for as long as it takes.
Thanks!
Mauro
May 9th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Keep It Up ! No worries Take Your Time. Just Relax!!
May 9th, 2007 at 7:02 am
Regarding Windows 2000 SP4 updates, 2 updates have just appeared on the radar via the automatic updates route. They are known as KB867801 and KB832894. Both are intended to update IE6 SP1. Both fail. When I download the .exe update files, they tell me “This update requires Internet Explorer 6.0 ServicePack 1 to be installed.” This is patently nonsense because ‘About Internet Explorer’ confirms that IE6 is at SP1 status. Just thought you ought to know.
I have tried to tell Microsoft but it is stone deaf.
Thanks for what you are doing for us all. Autopatcher is of great value to the worldwide community.
May 9th, 2007 at 7:35 am
@ Chris Thomas: It happened the same thing to me. It must be a problem caused by Microsoft, because KB867801 is from 7/30/2004, and KB832894 form 2/2/2004!!
They have broken something with the latest Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 (KB931768)
May 9th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Hey chef, what is happening with the update? We’re wayting here, we need that update :P!! Hurry up pls man
May 9th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Yea, we’re hungry, hurry up!
May 10th, 2007 at 3:42 am
How rude and Uncomplimentary can people get.
Such comments on the delay of the latest AutoPatcher are uncalled for, and are not in the least helpful to the thousands of us who appreciate all the help we get FREE from these guy’s.
If you can’t stand the waiting, then at least have the decency to go away and leave the site for ever.
Please think before you place such comment on line, these guy’s have feelings you know.
May 10th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Why don’t you just post the March and April patches in v.5.1 and do the May or June patches in v.5.6 when you’re finished?
May 10th, 2007 at 6:13 am
AutoPatcher team,
Keep up the good work guys, I’m sure it will be worth the wait once it’s out.
Thanks, Eddie.
May 10th, 2007 at 7:56 am
Regardless of how long it will take for you guys to finish up, you should know that thousands of folks, myself included, deeply appreciate the effort that you put into Autopatcher.
Thanks, to the entire team.
May 10th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Like IP says…
I know you do it for love, but you must understand people waiting will get impatient. Not even an status update in over two weeks FFS.
Sort it out.
May 11th, 2007 at 4:18 am
giae
May 11th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Hi, I’m just wondering if WindowsUpdateAgent (3) is included in the may releases? link included
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x86.exe
May 11th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
forgot to add 64bit link
http://download.windowsupdate.com/v7/windowsupdate/redist/standalone/WindowsUpdateAgent30-x64.exe
May 14th, 2007 at 8:54 am
its getting long and boring waiting for the next release.
hope it finishes first . i thought of donating but now i think that i can’t do it after the next release.
when will it be out is a big question.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:26 am
You updater is a great tool. Please don’t let those comments from demanding jerks phase you. Most of us really appreciate what you do.
May 28th, 2007 at 5:22 am
Any news of release date yet Guy’s?