On 5/15/2012 11:59 AM, Jo-Anne wrote:
I've been using a Samsung external DVD drive with my WinXP netbook. Last
week I installed all the Patch Tuesday updates. Then I used the DVD drive to
install Microsoft Word. After that, I installed all the high-priority
Microsoft updates that followed the installation of Word.

Yesterday, when I tried to play a CD, I discovered that the drive isn't
recognized by Windows any more. When I plug it into the USB port, it lights
up momentarily; but there's no Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system
tray, and the drive doesn't appear in My Computer...

I've been using Windows since the '93 and I have never had a virus or
trojan yet. So that has never been a problem for me. Although decades
worth of harm that updates has done has been too numerous to count.

I am fortunate, as I have over 20 laptops here. And I started
experimenting with some of them to see if it really is true if you don't
do security updates, your computer becomes a bigger target for malware?
And after about 5 years of experimenting, I still haven't gotten any
malware on any of my computers. Nor am I bothered by updates which
screws up my computers either.

And my recommendation for others who wants to do their own
experimenting, is to make backups just in case something goes wrong. But
you should be doing that anyway to protect yourself from bad updates as
well.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP2