[Daniel's Intro] Subtitles by: Chaimann
Windows XP.
One of the most favorite Windows versions ever.
And not only for me, but for almost everyone else out there.
It was one of the main "actors" that took part in lots of the experiments that I did on this channel.
As most of you already know, and as it has been told on this channel for god knows how much,
...this system has reached its end of life on April 8th, 2014.
However, the ATM-oritented version of Windows, called Windows Embedded POSReady 2009,
...was able to "survive" to a whopping April 9th, 2019.
Also, every system starting from Windows 98 got a feature called "Windows Update". Which is, shortly speaking, a Windows update mechanism.
This service allowed the user to check for some new system patches,
This service allowed the user to check for some new system patches, new drivers from your vendors,
This service allowed the user to check for some new system patches, new drivers from your vendors, and the service packs.
You were able to download all of the abovementioned stuff not only via Windows Update,
but directly from the Microsoft site.
Every release of Windows had its own Windows Update version.
And since Windows Vista, this service was built-in as a core function,
and not a separate site-service-"whateverthisis".
It can be found as a separate entry in the Control Panel.
After the certain Windows version hits its "End-of-life",
the Windows Update service stops working after some time.
The situation was quite different with Windows XP, though.
It kept working on Windows XP even in 2016, up until 2017.
I even got an opportunity to see it working back then.
It was later discontinued, however. Clicking on "Windows Update" entry in the Start Menu did nothing but redirect you to the Microsoft webpage.
And in 2019-2020, Microsoft started taking down all the updates, setup wizards and old software
that was made for the older Windows versions from their site.
So, people from the MSFN, BetaArchive and other Microsoft Software Fans
(e-he-he, surprise! a new voice!) So, people from the MSFN, BetaArchive and other Microsoft Software Fans
So, people from the MSFN, BetaArchive and other Microsoft Software Fans
managed to "roll back" the update mechanism that was taken down by Microsoft, and this is how "Legacy Update" was born.
It is a program, or rather a whole service that aims to recreate an old Windows Update mechanism.
So, as you can already see, this program is what I am willing to take a look at today.
You can download this program from the official site. Which is, by the way, resembles the look of the old Windows Update page.
You can see on the left a menu that can guide you on setting this service up, explaining all the error codes,
a 30-day usage statictics, a FAQ page and a privacy policy.
(if someone is interested in the policy :D) a 30-day usage statictics, a FAQ page and a privacy policy.
The Main Page has a download button and a guide to get the service working on Windows Vista and Windows 7. (As well as their server derivatives)
Let's download and start it up.
An installer window shows, and we are right away asked about selecting the components that we can install.
Although there really is nothing to choose between: 2 out of 3 checkboxes are locked and will be installed no matter what.
Yet there is a bright side: the program allows us to update our root certificates. This fixes the problem with various web-browsers such as Chromium, and we can actually browse the web.
Please note that all of that was checked on Windows XP.
No need to restart the system after installation: we are greeted with the Legacy Update page right after installing it.
It is now checking for the latest updates. No, seriously. And, without any jokes,
it searches for the installed updates and fetches your OS' language.
A first check is always longer than usual. We are even told about that under the progress bar.
Fun fact: this service mimics the old Update mechanism so much the browser thinks that it's connected through a safe protocol.
(o_O) ?
After this "first check" has done its work,
we are prompted to download a mandatory update.
For this review, we are using Windows XP SP3, which did not recieve any updates since 2008.
Therefore, we accept this "request" and the download for "Windows Genooin Adventeich" has been started.
This service adds a software validation, and was a real pain to deal with for those who were making their own Windows XP builds.
If it saw something suspicious in your build,
it blocked the access to almost every Microsoft service, and on top of all that,
every time the user logged into the system, he would witness the message of a non-geniune software.
You couldn't close it right away.
You had to wait for nearly 5 seconds to be able to press a "Resolve Later" button.
Fortunately, people quickly found a way to bypass this validation.
Okay, back to the updates.
A second round of an Update Check is being initialized after installing WGA.
But we can see already how many updates the service got for us.
138+1 +1+1 = 141 !!!
Not only the updates are present here,
but some add-ons, such as Windows Search 4.0,
an Online Windows Live installer (for some reason, i expected to see a program here),
various libraries like Microsoft .NET 4.0,
Internet Explorer 8,
Windows Media Player 11,
and an early Windows Defender version, called "Microsoft Security Essentials".
It even got a Sound Card driver update!
As you can already see, all the packages and their descriptions are written on our OS' current language.
That is, on russian.
But that's not something we'll focus our attention on. Let's get straight into installing.
Click on "Review and install updates", confirm your intentions and that's it!
It really is working, as you can see. The updates are being installed.
"But now something really started to bother Daniel's inner ego."
"He wondered, like, «What is the source of these updates?»"
"Did the people make their own server to host the files?"
"Or maybe it was Microsoft who only partially took down their servers?"
Doesn't really matter now.
The process itself takes some time to complete, but a quick rewind is not illegal to do. :)
After all the updates are installed, we must reboot the system.
And after restarting we should be greeted with an End of Life message like that one.
The truth is, this message is a clear sign of a successful system update.
This service can also be used on a Windows 2000 system.
Not only the root certificate, but a latest version of Internet Explorer can be installed when running Legacy Update on Windows 2000.
With a cost of one reboot :)
This service will work like a charm after all the abovementioned manipulations.
So, this is what I can say in the end:
this video came out to be a little "light" in production, but that's not what I really wanted to say.
SO...
I'm 100% sure this service will be very useful for the old PCs running Windows XP.
Because there are people who are too lazy to search for the updates, or those who don't want to download some old and suspicious Offline Packs.
Because Windows XP was still getting some updates back in 2017 and 2019.
You could tweak the system a bit for it to mimick Windows XP Embedded, so it could keep recieving updates officially until 2019.
It's not really something a modern user would use,
so you can ask me in the end: "What was the point of you showing us this service?"
The reason behind it is actually pretty simple:
"I just want to let you know about such tool existing."
Even if the Legacy Update dissapears in one moment,
it would not cancel the fact of its existence in the past.
Yep, just like that :P
And that's about it!
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