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[Blindsay]

So i have Autopatcher with XP/Vista(32/64)/Office 07/03 and it seems to take almost as long to run autopatcher as for me to download them and install them on each individual computer. I was using a cheap slow flash drive but i just tried the Sandish Cruzer contour which is rated at 25MB/s read and 18MB/s write, little faster but still slow. Is there any ways you guys can think of being able to deploy windows updates faster? (if i run from the hard drive directly it runs fast but i need a small portable way to deploy them) would seperating the updates, ie xp on 1 flash drive and vista on another help? any thoughts and suggestions would help (i even thought about running from a network hard drive that i have but some of the computers are only 100Mb or 12.5MB/s)

[Cristiano]

> ie xp on 1 flash drive and vista on another help?
it could, in deed. autopatcher may take some time to load and check all files. so, if you have one folder to xp, another one to vista, etc and you run only the version that fits to your system, it will speed-up things a lot. also, i don't like pendrives to that task, because really, they are painful slow. because of that, i us to burn into cds and i always run from hd. of course, an dvd would be great, but sometimes i don't have that luxury. also, an tip: pendrives us to be a lot faster to big files than small ones. so, if you are running from hd anyway, you can just zip the whole thing into an non-compressed files (it will decrease a lot the time required to that) and just put it into pendrives. when required, you just need to extract. it could not be the best option, but...

also, i us to disable system restore when updating and also the anti-virus software. it us to speed-up the install time a lot...

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So i have Autopatcher with XP/Vista(32/64)/Office 07/03

If these releases are sharing the same modules folder then this is the problem (most of it anyway) - everything in the folder gets verified.

I have been saying for a long time to separate the releases (see my sig), it makes things so much easier overall.

Also, dittos to everything Cristiano has mentioned.

Mike

[Blindsay]

so should my folder structure look like this (i made a flash drive thats with only vista and office 07)

x:\modules\Vista
x:\modules\Office07

or

x:\Vista
x:\Office07

?

Edited by gUiTaR_mIkE, 02 April 2009 - 12:10 AM.
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Each release must be in it's own directory, a complete AutoPatcher directory system, and not sharing the same modules folder.

So, if what you mean here is this directory structure,
C:\apup\modules\
.............................\Vista\
.............................\Office07\

then no. This release is sharing the same modules directory, and the same "apup.exe" and "autopatcher.exe", and probably
wouldn't work anyway.

This on the other hand, is the same APUP main directory with independent release directories.
C:\apup\

..............\Vista\
........................\apup_bin
........................\bin
........................\modules
........................\tools
........................\translations
........................\win9xnt

..............\Office07\
............................\apup_bin
............................\bin
............................\modules
............................\tools
............................\translations
............................\win9xnt

In the second setup, each release is a fully functional independent release with it's own apup.exe and autopatcher.exe etc.
To copy the folder to another media, simply highlight the folder ie; Vista or Office07 - and copy - done.
The only caveat is you must pay attention when updating, you need to remember what apup.exe you clicked.

Mike

Note:
This is what most people do, which creates the errors or makes loading very slow because every release gets verified;
C:\apup\
...............\apup_bin
...............\bin
...............\modules\XPx86, Vistax86, 2K, Office07, Office03, XPx64, .Net, Java and etc
...............\tools
...............\translations
...............\win9xnt

Edited by gUiTaR_mIkE, 01 April 2009 - 06:03 PM.

[Blindsay]

ah, makes perfect sense now. Thank you very much!

Edited by gUiTaR_mIkE, 02 April 2009 - 12:13 AM.
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Blindsay,
For future reference - Log Files & "Quotes" - Please Read!

Mike

Note: I figured I would add this image as a reference hoping it will make having separate folders a little easier to manage (update), there
may be another way but this works for me.
APUP Multi Modules

You could go one step further and really make things easy by adding a "shortcut" to each autopatcher.exe as well, using /nolicense.

AP.Vista.x86 - don't forget to add the /nolicense switch in the path.
AP.Office.03
AP.XP.SP3

Experiment and see what works for you.

Edited by gUiTaR_mIkE, 02 April 2009 - 01:06 AM.

[darthyoda6]

Also, if you delete the .rti files in each root directory, then it doesn't do a md5 checksum on each file. It will however tell you that you're using an unofficial version of the program.