Fresh XP Reinstall What Updates

[ribs55]

Hello everyone

I had to do a Fresh reinstall due to Virus'es and such. Afte
deleting the existing Partition the reinstall went along rather well.
I had a XP 2 CD that I also installed after a reboot and all seem
fine, Now the question, of course, Microsoft has a dozen other upgrade
it would like me to install also.
I seem to remember there were some "upgrades" that you were bette
off NOT installing, if so what were they and why?
Also, I would love to keep track of my registry to try to keep i
from getting to far out of hand (tho I realize different program
will/might change it some)
Is there a way to take a "picture" of it, this way perhaps I can do
little restoring myself?
I guess, basically I am asking for a basic maintenance routine t
keep track of things. I am already finding programs on the computer
did not ask for or purposely download (tho there are 5 people usin
this machine and I do not knnow if they did, but I doubt it) IE
Norton computer check downloaded itself with no request from me (
deleted it)
I am running McCafee products (including the firewall, I don't lik
how the computer seems to always be connected to the internet). Thi
is a lot to ask, any help would be appreciated

Thanks to all
Bob

 

[Allan]

Hello everyone

I had to do a Fresh reinstall due to Virus'es and such. After
deleting the existing Partition the reinstall went along rather well.
I had a XP 2 CD that I also installed after a reboot and all seems
fine, Now the question, of course, Microsoft has a dozen other upgrades
it would like me to install also.
I seem to remember there were some "upgrades" that you were better
off NOT installing, if so what were they and why?
Also, I would love to keep track of my registry to try to keep it
from getting to far out of hand (tho I realize different programs
will/might change it some)
Is there a way to take a "picture" of it, this way perhaps I can do a
little restoring myself?
I guess, basically I am asking for a basic maintenance routine to
keep track of things. I am already finding programs on the computer I
did not ask for or purposely download (tho there are 5 people using
this machine and I do not knnow if they did, but I doubt it) IE:
Norton computer check downloaded itself with no request from me ( I
deleted it)
I am running McCafee products (including the firewall, I don't like
how the computer seems to always be connected to the internet). This
is a lot to ask, any help would be appreciated

First of all enable Auto Updates notifications and download and install all
critical security updates as well as SP3. Yes, there are ways of backing up
the registry including special tools but that is not as important right now.
Also update your McAfee AV regularly in case you are not already doing so
automatically.