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Old October 28th 14, 05:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
philo [_3_]
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Default XP update malicious software?

On 10/27/2014 11:48 PM, Sasquatch Jones wrote:
"philo " wrote in message ...
On 10/20/2014 06:40 AM, Ron Hardin wrote:
Windows update continues to work for XP, with a
new malicious software update each month.

Just this month it started sending data back to
microsoft. Anyway Zone Alarm asks for permission
and it won't complete the update without it.

Perhaps a record of what the previous month's has
found?




On XP, Windows update will work for Microsoft components other than the
operating system itself. So it's normal that updates for MSE will keep
coming. I'm sure they will as well for Media Player and Office etc.


philo, I'm going to install XP on this machine that has Win2000. Any advice on how to set it up so that I can boot to a menu and choose one or the other?





If the machine has one hard drive and it's all one partition you will
need to get 3rd party software to repartition your drive.

You will need to shrink the Win2000 partition first.


http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...rtition-Wizard


Once you do that there will be "free space" on the drive.


Now all you have to do is boot with your XP cd and be sure to take the
option to use the free space for your installation.


BTW, unless your machine has at least a 1ghz cpu and 512 megs of RAM
don't even bother to try XP


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