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[Zifnab06]

I downloaded the August 2007 release right after it came out, and I love it. It makes updating windows so much easier. But I have somewhat of an Idea for the project managers

1) Set up a base release, one that does not have ANY updates installed with it. You could download just the autopatcher basic program.

2) Use APUP to Update the base release. Then somehow create a file that exports the downloaded files to an ISO you can burn to CD and update with later in time. Set up a LIVE version of Autopatcher on the CD that requires no installation.

This would possibly solve the issue with the Microsoft support team and keep this great project running. I hope someone else sees this as a great idea as well.

Zifnab06
Gamer of Greater w00t


EDIT- Okay, forget the first part. I started playing around with APUP and realized thats exactly what it does...my bad. But the second part of the second part would still be nice, a live CD, unless Autopatcher already does that as well...i'm amazed at what it can do so far.

Edited by Zifnab06, 25 November 2007 - 05:50 PM.

[M2Ys4U]

Well it creates an autorun file so you can just burn the folder to CD, which Windows can do natively. I don't see the reason for automatically creating an iso

[Cyrus]

note: apup.exe does not create an autorun file, that was the old behavior of AP before MS shut it down.

[M2Ys4U]

Cyrus, on Nov 25 2007, 10:57 PM, said:

note: apup.exe does not create an autorun file, that was the old behavior of AP before MS shut it down.

ah, my bad. I assumed it was the same as the old one.

[Cyrus]

To make it autorun from a CD, just open notepad and paste the following into it:

[autorun]
open=autopatcher.exe
label=AutoPatcher

Then save it as "autorun.inf" (without the quotes, and NOT autorun.inf.txt) and when you burn autopatcher to CD, place this file in the root directory of the CD.