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memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:41 am

I was in line ready to buy windows 7 and asked the clerk at the
last sec if you can authorize and also get updates/service packs
on a music computer/computer with no internet and he said
that you can authorize it to use it but you have to have internet
on the computer to get updates/service packs and so on with windows 7.

Is this true?

drlazy · Post by **drlazy** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:10 pm

In XP you can authorize Windows over the phone, I suspect 7 is no different.

You can download service packs from Microsoft's download center.

yellowfever · Post by **yellowfever** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:12 pm

drlazy wrote:You can download service packs from Microsoft's download center.

But he wants to know if you can get them WITHOUT internet

egbert · Post by **egbert** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:25 pm

I suspect the real question is whether or not you can download the updates on another computer (eg not Win 7) and transfer them using a memory stick or whatever. If the download center won't allow that you can't update the Win7 machine without connecting it to the internet.

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:19 pm

yellowfever wrote:
drlazy wrote:You can download service packs from Microsoft's download center.
But he wants to know if you can get them WITHOUT internet

memyselfandus · Post by **memyselfandus** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:19 pm

egbert wrote:I suspect the real question is whether or not you can download the updates on another computer (eg not Win 7) and transfer them using a memory stick or whatever. If the download center won't allow that you can't update the Win7 machine without connecting it to the internet.

Yes! this is what I am trying to figure out.

LiteOn · Post by **LiteOn** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:23 pm

memyselfandus wrote:I was in line ready to buy windows 7 and asked the clerk at the
last sec if you can authorize and also get updates/service packs
on a music computer/computer with no internet and he said
that you can authorize it to use it but you have to have internet
on the computer to get updates/service packs and so on with windows 7.

Is this true?

Why that hassle anyway?

Could you put your DAW behind a router? If yes, I recommend you to stop that whole my-DAW-will-never-see-the-internet-thing and let it go online just on demand, e.g. for updating once per week. I really don't see any serious reason not to do it.

Cheers,
LiteOn

drlazy · Post by **drlazy** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:23 am

I'm sorry I wasn't clear.

You can download an offline installation file of any service pack from Microsoft's download center. for example if you wanted to download SP1 for vista you would go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

After you download this file in a computer with internet you can copy it to a USB drive and install it in your DAW.

How do you update service packs for windows 7 without internet?