Updates as of 2/25

[Ken->]

I keep getting a popup saying that updates are available do I want to
install them. Is there any reason to not install them?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You should always install the recommended critical updates
for Windows XP. There is no valid reason not to install them.

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|I keep getting a popup saying that updates are available do I want to
| install them. Is there any reason to not install them?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Absolutely.

 

[DanS]

You should always install the recommended critical updates
for Windows XP. There is no valid reason not to install them.

can i ask then why does question after question here state that 'everything
work fine until update xxxxxxxx, now i can't do 'this' or do 'that'"

the last update i did was the Sasser Worm thing, before that SP1.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

A corrupted update file or some other local problem is usually the cause of
the posts you see here. You will never see a post that says "everything
went great with my patch download today" except in response to a problem
report by another poster. That means millions of patches when OK but a
handful didn't and those are the ones you see here.

 

[DanS]

A corrupted update file or some other local problem is usually the
cause of the posts you see here. You will never see a post that says
"everything went great with my patch download today" except in
response to a problem report by another poster. That means millions
of patches when OK but a handful didn't and those are the ones you see
here.

Well yes, of course you only here about the problems, I understand that.
But I'm also sure that there a lot of people that have problems that aren't
aware of help groups like this and you don't hear from them, they have
someone they know fix it for them.

I'm just saying that you have the choice not to do it as well. Every update
seems to be a 'Critical Update !'. You take precaution's, know the risks,
configure according, AV, AntiSpyware, etc. Know what's supposed to be
running, odd behavior, keep everything clean.

So what are the latest 'critical updates' for the last 6 months ?

But seriously, I know if I was just a casual user, what would really suck
is waking up one morning and my new $500 'Dell' computer crashed because of
some update that came down over-night, and after rebooting, it would just
go into some bizarre re-booting pattern, that I had never seen before, and
I had NO idea what-so-ever to do, because just got this computer 2 months
ago and at work, the IT deparment/co-worker comes to fix it.

Regards,

DanS