If you need to continues these off topic dialogues for ever and a day
how about snipping! Also do these posts need to
microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public .windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help _and_support.
Surely one group is sufficient.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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HEMI-Powered wrote:
Unknown added these comments in the current discussion du jour
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As I said, I do manual updates. After I clicked on Windows
Update and selected 'custom' there were 16 security updates

OK, !16 meant 16, ! was a shifted 1. But, I still don't
understand your comments. I successfully have installed all but a
handful of MS critical updates. Those did not fail, I chose not
to install them EVER because whilst lurking in these several NGs,
I discovered other people complaining about problems I thought
might affect me. So, I have been fortunate not to have had a
catastrophic failure of any sort, but I feel it is more because
of my dilligence in verifying what I am doing than in blind luck.

Have a great day!