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[Nick_White]

I have Office 2003 with SP3 integrated. Is there a way to exclude SP3 from Autopatcher so I don't have to download it again?

[James]

Nick_White, on Jul 5 2008, 11:07 PM, said:

Is there a way to exclude SP3 from Autopatcher so I don't have to download it again?

I remember asking almost the same question about a year ago, when AutoPatcher for Office was being developed and Beta tested. As I recall (and no doubt Eric Ramey will correct me if I am wrong) the detection logic of first detecting the Office Service Pack level and then offering no other updates until after the correct SP was installed ended up being too complicated, requiring too much rewriting of autopatcher.exe itself.

In addition, if the AutoPatcher folder tree (with no SP) is copied to a CD, DVD or flash drive and taken to a computer without the right SP installed, it becomes useless. Always having the Service Pack ready to install was thought more generally useful.

I know an Office Service Pack is not a small file, but apup should only ever download it once.

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[Nick_White]

James, on Jul 7 2008, 12:21 PM, said:

In addition, if the AutoPatcher folder tree (with no SP) is copied to a CD, DVD or flash drive and taken to a computer without the right SP installed, it becomes useless. Always having the Service Pack ready to install was thought more generally useful.

Yes, it would be.
But the module for Windows XP, for example, doesn't have SP3. So there is a difference between the two modules regarding the inclusion of service packs.

[Erik Ramey]

I'll put this on my to-do list. If I hear ya right, you want the SP to be excluded from the main Office 2K3 pack just like the Office 2K7 pack is setup?

[DesertJerry]

Odd - maybe.

I also have Office 2003 Pro w/SP3 installed on my system.

The download is:Office2003SP3-KB923618-FullFile.exe

So, I started AutoPatcher and under Microsoft Office 2003 everything is blue but none of the items listed are labelled to coincide with the KB number for SP3; so, am I missing something somewhere? Or is AutoPatcher not downloading/listing SP3 for my system.

What should I be looking for to confirm/verify whether or not APUP did its thing correctly?