Re: Windows Update, ie5 update, etc.

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From: Stuart Halliday
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:00

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In article <P5z7PGAiNZr3EwPU@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, 
andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk says...

> What I want to know is, can I simply upgrade using a version of ie5 for
> a magazine cover disc? How will I know I have the latest version?

You could get hold of the IE5 admin kit, its free from the MS site.
Then you can tailor IE5 to your own specs.
It has a version checker built in too.

My copy of the IE5 installation has a file called Ie5sites.dat
this contains a url list of the IE5 mirrors. One is Demon and there are 
3 others in the UK....

Try
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie5/download/rtw/x86/ie5sites.dat

ftp.cix.co.uk/mirrors/tucows.com/DOWNLOAD/win32/ie5sites.dat
seems to have a lot.

One way is to use one of those web page updated auto-informer sites.
Tie in the ie5 cab file into it from your fav. http site and any time 
the cab file time stamp is changed you are emailed?

Then download the cab into your active setup directory, which is in your 
root and overwrite it?

Your registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active 
Setup\InstallInfo
contains where it looks for the updated cabs.
You could change this to point to a folder on your harddrive containing 
the cabs?

-- 
Stuart Halliday
Acorn Cybervillage
http://acorn.cybervillage.co.uk/

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From: stuart@cybervillage.co.removethisfirst.uk (Stuart Halliday)
Subject: Re: Windows Update, ie5 update, etc.
Date: 1999/08/12
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