Dear Lazy­Web,

Prob­lem: To test some com­pat­i­bil­ity issues between a par­tic­u­lar web server and the lat­est, great­est Win­dows XP, I need to upgrade an XP box from SP2 to what­ever hot­fixes and stuff comes after SP2 (includ­ing Inter­net Explorer 7.)

Com­pli­ca­tion: For rea­sons beyond my con­trol, the XP box does not have access to the inter­net, so auto­matic update won’t work.  In fact, no Win­dows machine at my dis­posal has inter­net access–just Linux and Mac machines.

Pre­vi­ous Solu­tion: When help­ing to pro­tect my par­ents Win2K machine (with 14.4 dialup inter­net access), I vaguely remem­ber a part of the Microsoft FTP or web site where I could go and man­u­ally down­load the var­i­ous secu­rity rollup hot­fixes and junk, burn them to disc, and install them at my leisure.  I can’t seem to find any­thing like that for XP.

What do I do?

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