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Martin

Banned

About howto make an updatepack like yours...

Hi Xable.

Could you please tell me how you come to get the reg-entries from the hotfixes ?

Do you copy/paste them directly out of the INFs of each hotfix(and copy/paste over the strings correctly), or do you use a tool like regshot unicode, which takes a snapshot before and after you have installed an update, and then outputs an INF or reg file with the new/changed keys, and then you copy over the needed keys from there?

Thanks in advance.

Martin H.

darren

(aka xable)

Re: About howto make an updatepack like yours...

Hi Martin,

That`s one way to do it but you`ll end up with a lot of entries you don`t need.

What I do is install the updates then export the qfecheck related entries from:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates

Then I check the inf to see if there are any extra registry entries added and copy them over. You can see my inf to get an idea of what`s needed from the inf in the update.

Sometimes an update will add extra entries which aren`t in the inf, this is where a registry capture tool can come in handy. In these cases I use InCTRL5 and extract the relevant bits from the output.

Martin

Banned

Re: About howto make an updatepack like yours...

Thanks alot, mate - much appreciated

Just a final question...

Most updates both sets keys to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates

and

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\HotFix

From reading your inf, then am i correct in that i can safely exclude that last key, when both are defined in the install inf? (it looks like you do, unless it's the only one defined of the two...)

thanks in advance.

Edit: Sorry, of course i could just test this myself, and i've just did, so yes, that last key is redundant...

Thanks again, mate

CU, Martin H

Edit2: just wanted to add, that even though it dosen't look like that from reading the qfecheck kb article, then the only mandatory stuff from this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates

Is this:

HKLM,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP4\KB958690,"Description",,"Security Update for Windows XP (KB958690)"

Last edited by Martin (02-06-09 14:20)

darren

(aka xable)

Re: About howto make an updatepack like yours...

Happy to help

The info in the HotFix key is for the ADD/Remove pannel and of course slipstreamed updates aren`t uninstallable so they can be omitted. Although it wouldn`t hurt to add them for information sake and just leave out the uninstall info if you prefer.

Only info from the Updates key that`s needed is the file and checksum info, that`s what qfecheck uses to determin if an update is installed properly.

HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP4\KB958690\Filelist\0","BuildCheckSum",,"1c576c"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP4\KB958690\Filelist\0","BuildDate",,"Mon Feb 09 11:13:13 2009"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP4\KB958690\Filelist\0","FileName",,"win32k.sys"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP4\KB958690\Filelist\0","Location",,"%24%\WINDOWS\system32"
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP4\KB958690\Filelist\0","Version",,"5.1.2600.5756"