This is an excellent site if anybody needs help with updates

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Updates for any Windows operating system should only be obtained
directly from the official Microsoft Windows Update web site,
and not some third-party web site.

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Windows XP - Shell/User
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Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx

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| This site: http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/
|
| Seems to be excellent, it lists all the updates in order of importance, very
| much sorting the wheat from the chaff. I think you can download this as
| "stand alone installation files" that come directly from the microsoft site,
| and you can then upload them at your leisure.

 

[News]

This site: http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/

Seems to be excellent, it lists all the updates in order of importance, very
much sorting the wheat from the chaff. I think you can download this as
"stand alone installation files" that come directly from the microsoft site,
and you can then upload them at your leisure.

 

[kurttrail]

Updates for any Windows operating system should only be obtained
directly from the official Microsoft Windows Update web site,
and not some third-party web site.

Another instance of Carey speaking without knowing. The download links
are to the patches on Microsoft's server.

http://www.kurttrail.com/microscum/postsp2 is a list of all essential
updates to Windows XP from SP2 onward in chronological order with links
to the direct downloads from Microsoft's server.

The best reason to do the patching yourself and not rely on Windows
Update or Automatic Update is to cut out another layer of crap that can
go wrong in the patching process.

Take control of patching your OS with Common Sense Computing:

http://www.microscum.com/comsense/

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[Richard Urban]

Carey,

I just went to the site and started to download a patch. It was coming in
from download.microsoft.com - so, the files (at least the one I tested) WAS
coming from Microsoft!

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aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[kurttrail]

Carey,

I just went to the site and started to download a patch. It was
coming in from download.microsoft.com - so, the files (at least the
one I tested) WAS coming from Microsoft!

ROFL! Trying to get Carey to listen to reason, are ya'?

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[Bruce Chambers]

This site: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Seems to be excellent, it lists all the updates in order of importance, very
much sorting the wheat from the chaff. I think you can download this as
"stand alone installation files" that come directly from the microsoft site,
and you can then upload them at your leisure.

Looks like a site put up buy someone whose sole purpose is trying to
profit (via advertising, a lot of advertising) from gullible people who
don't know how to use Windows Update properly. The so-called
"explanations" of the patches are slim on technical information, but
rich in opinion; pretty much useless, in other words.


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[Bruce Chambers]

Another instance of Carey speaking without knowing. The download links
are to the patches on Microsoft's server.

Not the links I tested.

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[kurttrail]

Not the links I tested.

All of the XP downloads is from MS servers.

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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

 

[Jim]

Like Microsofts sole purpose isn't profit? You make me laugh.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Like Microsofts sole purpose isn't profit? You make me laugh.

Sure, but Microsoft doesn't inundate one with irrelevant advertisements
and pop-ups just to get updates. Also, while Microsoft seeks to profit
from it's own products and services, it doesn't seek to profit from
someone else's work, contributing little or nothing of value, the way
the web site in question does.


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