Updates and patches to XP Pro

[Bert]

I installed WinXP-Pro in June of 03. Since then I've
counted 27 Hotfixes (including today's) listed in the ADD
or Remove Programs. Is there any problem to adding patches
over patches? - this seems somwhat excessive. Does anyone
know if some of these patches have been revised or updated?
Is there any advantage to uninstalling all these patches
then doing a program update once a year?
Thanks.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Bert;
If you remove the patch, you also remove the fix.

However you can safely delete the uninstall files:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm

 

[Drydem]

I installed WinXP-Pro in June of 03. Since then I've
counted 27 Hotfixes (including today's) listed in the ADD
or Remove Programs. Is there any problem to adding patches
over patches? - this seems somwhat excessive.

no.
IIRC none of the XP security patches installation documentation
has indicated any problems. In fact, to update DirectX to its most
secure version - one has no choice but to install Direct X 9.0b over
the previously installed version of DirectX. Be aware that
that Hotfixes maybe not be as stable or as fully tested as
fixes provided by the Service Packs.

Does anyone
know if some of these patches have been revised or updated?

If you have a hi speed internet connection
it would be easier to update WinXP Pro using
the Internet/Online Update feature. If your
computer is a client on a WAM/MAN/LAN, the
local system administrator might be able to
automatically update your computer from the
server.

Is there any advantage to uninstalling all these patches
then doing a program update once a year?

Microsoft has promised to release security update patches
every 2nd Tuesday of the month for Windows XP.

The initial update for Windows XP Pro using a 56k dial
up takes hours and hours to do and even longer if you decide
to do all the updates for IE6, DirectX, WMP, Messenger,
Movie Maker, and Office. It's much shorter to just
update the Windows XP security and hw bugs. I've listed
the microsoft security and Hw bug Knowledgebase numbers
and technical bulletins for patches are listed below for.
The newest XP patch has to do with fixing a FrontPage Extension
security flaw (810217, MS03-051). Microsoft restricts
the listing of its urls for some of its security patches.

knowledge Tech
base# bulletin#
====================
320174
328310 MS02-071
329115 MS02-050
329170 MS02-079
329390 MS02-072
329441
329834 MS02-063
331958
810217 MS03-051
810577 MS03-005
810833 MS03-001
811279
811493 MS03-013
811493 MS03-013
814033
815021 MS03-007
817287
817606 MS03-024
817713
819696 MS03-030
819696 MS03-030
821557 MS03-027
821588
822603
823182 MS03-041
823559 MS03-023
823980 MS03-026
824141 MS03-045
826939
827363 MS03-026
828035 MS03-043
828749 MS03-049
=================

 

[Curtis Clay III [MSFT]]

Hello Bert,
There is no advantage to removing the patches. As mentioned uninstalling
the patches removes the fixes. Waiting until a SP is released leaves you
vunerable to any worms or hackers.

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