Just a few days ago I posted an article about How to update Windows with Offline Updates which downloaded selected updates for various Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office directly from Windows update servers.
Project Dakota is another way of obtaining the latest updates for Windows XP. The project can be downloaded as a CD containing all updates found on the Microsoft website for Windows XP 32-bit including Service Pack 2 and some other useful programs like Spybot Search & Destroy.
The good thing about this is that you can download the Iso, burn it to CD and install it on as many computers running Windows XP as you like. You make a few selections at the beginning but all updates are installed silently afterwards which means they require no user interaction.
New versions of the Project Dakota iso will be released each month which unfortunately have to be downloaded again. That’s probably the biggest disadvantage of this approach.
There is no information on the kind of updates and software included on the CD until you download the iso and burn it. The independent programs are the following:
adaware
adobereader
apps
avgas
avgav
Firefox
flash
java
quicktime
spybot
vnc
Bginfo
CWShredder
portmon
procmon
psexec
psfile
psgetsid
psinfo
pskill
pslist
psloggedon
psloglist
pspasswd
psservice
psshutdown
pssuspend
SmitfraudFix
whois
Related posts:
- Windows Updates Downloader
- Update Windows with Offline Update
- Microsoft Office Live Update
- Update Windows without Microsoft
- Microsoft killing Autopatcher Project
- Stealth Windows Update poses more problems than thought
- Block windows update from automatic updating to IE7
- Download Windows Vista SP1 Beta through Windows Update again
How is this different to AutoPatcher?
Will Micro$oft be killing this project too?
Hi all,
i made Project Dakota (no joke)
Its not much different to autopatcher, and we are doing everything we can to prevent being shutdown
what is up with Project Dakota today?? not working??