From: Jan van Hoek (NL) 

>> I would only replace those files which are the "same"-
>> so both the Installation History and Windows Update
>> won't have an issue.

This reply does not compute (by me): same name does not imply same content.

Check a random example of a C:\WINDOWS\NTUnInstallxxxx directory, and
you'll loose all hope(:-(( Not that it really matters what these
directories contain (I delete them routinely), but it illustrates what a
Windows Update action does under the hood.

IF (I say IF, see my still more important "files in use"
paragraph) this COPY operation succeeds, you may get a working
installation. But I'll expect that subsequent usages of Windows Update will
yield some complaints, sooner or later, especially when trying to reverse
some later update.


 >> Both installation,
 >> from an XP perspective,
 >> are the same.

Of course, that goes without saying. Otherwise this operation would be a
Mission Impossible anyway.
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-- Jan van Hoek (NL)
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