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Which updates must I have?
Me again,
I installed SP3 in July and then the August microsoft updates caused my pc to not reboot. A repair install got it going but there were still things wrong to the point it stopped booting again. A couple of days ago I formatted and reinstalled XP Home with a slipstreamed SP3 CD. All is working fantastic again. I have not done any updates at this point. What I need to find out is what updates do I really need? I don't know what caused all the problems I was having and am loathe to go through it all again. Is there a site that can tell me what I really must have as an ongoing thing? Thankyou for your time Robyn |
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Which updates must I have?
miskairal wrote:
Me again, I installed SP3 in July and then the August microsoft updates caused my pc to not reboot. A repair install got it going but there were still things wrong to the point it stopped booting again. A couple of days ago I formatted and reinstalled XP Home with a slipstreamed SP3 CD. All is working fantastic again. I have not done any updates at this point. What I need to find out is what updates do I really need? I don't know what caused all the problems I was having and am loathe to go through it all again. Is there a site that can tell me what I really must have as an ongoing thing? Thankyou for your time Robyn Don't recognize you - but - you are one of thousands upon thousands who have posted here in so many days. Use your web browser, visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and scan for (custom) updates. You may need to install updates just to properly use the page. In the critical/security updates - uncheck all but one (or a few - your choice) and install them. Reboot, try things out - you know what problems you had before... Do you have them now? If not - do it again. Later - after you have gotten all of the Critical/Security updates - you could venture into the Optional Software Updates and do the same. I recommend staying away from the Optional Hardware Updates completely. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Which updates must I have?
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http://www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com/ once a month you will get an e/mail which has a chart just like the one on the websites home page, under "systems effected" anything that says terminal servers and workstations are for a business type of eviorment and do not apply to a home computer. (mostly it is to stop an employee from elevating thier user rights). most, but not all hotfixes really do not apply to the average home user, having a good anti-virus/malware program on top of a firewall will stop most exploits long before MS gets around to providing a hotfix for it. You can also write down the kb# of the update and search microsoft.com for more info on the hotfix and decied if it applies to you, a real PITA but it is better than having an update screw your system up,if you do this you will find out that at least half of the updates state that this exploit cannot be exploited remotly, in other words the person will need access to your keyboard, scratch that one off the list many more will state that a firewall will stop it(not in those words) IMHO very few updates are really needed for the home user, you will get opinions which disagree with this many people who come here believe that having all updates on their system is a badge of honor, but if you go to the windows update site the day after patch tuesday you will see just how many systems an update have screwed up and most of it is totally unnessary. Good luck -- Mike Pawlak "miskairal" wrote: Me again, I installed SP3 in July and then the August microsoft updates caused my pc to not reboot. A repair install got it going but there were still things wrong to the point it stopped booting again. A couple of days ago I formatted and reinstalled XP Home with a slipstreamed SP3 CD. All is working fantastic again. I have not done any updates at this point. What I need to find out is what updates do I really need? I don't know what caused all the problems I was having and am loathe to go through it all again. Is there a site that can tell me what I really must have as an ongoing thing? Thankyou for your time Robyn |
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Which updates must I have?
MAP wrote:
Sign up for this newsletter http://www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com/ once a month you will get an e/mail which has a chart just like the one on the websites home page, under "systems effected" anything that says terminal servers and workstations are for a business type of eviorment and do not apply to a home computer. (mostly it is to stop an employee from elevating thier user rights). most, but not all hotfixes really do not apply to the average home user, having a good anti-virus/malware program on top of a firewall will stop most exploits long before MS gets around to providing a hotfix for it. You can also write down the kb# of the update and search microsoft.com for more info on the hotfix and decied if it applies to you, a real PITA but it is better than having an update screw your system up,if you do this you will find out that at least half of the updates state that this exploit cannot be exploited remotly, in other words the person will need access to your keyboard, scratch that one off the list many more will state that a firewall will stop it(not in those words) IMHO very few updates are really needed for the home user, you will get opinions which disagree with this many people who come here believe that having all updates on their system is a badge of honor, but if you go to the windows update site the day after patch tuesday you will see just how many systems an update have screwed up and most of it is totally unnessary. Good luck Thankyou so much for that info. |
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Which updates must I have?
Shenan Stanley wrote:
miskairal wrote: Me again, I installed SP3 in July and then the August microsoft updates caused my pc to not reboot. A repair install got it going but there were still things wrong to the point it stopped booting again. A couple of days ago I formatted and reinstalled XP Home with a slipstreamed SP3 CD. All is working fantastic again. I have not done any updates at this point. What I need to find out is what updates do I really need? I don't know what caused all the problems I was having and am loathe to go through it all again. Is there a site that can tell me what I really must have as an ongoing thing? Thankyou for your time Robyn Don't recognize you - but - you are one of thousands upon thousands who have posted here in so many days. Use your web browser, visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ and scan for (custom) updates. You may need to install updates just to properly use the page. In the critical/security updates - uncheck all but one (or a few - your choice) and install them. Reboot, try things out - you know what problems you had before... Do you have them now? If not - do it again. Later - after you have gotten all of the Critical/Security updates - you could venture into the Optional Software Updates and do the same. I recommend staying away from the Optional Hardware Updates completely. Thanks Shenan. I actually wrote "Me again" because I asked another question right before this one but it's gone off into cyberspace somewhere. Mind you I have been here plenty of times before and you have answered my questions before so thankyou for all the time you give. I had thought about doing the updates one by one but gee, I'm nervous of coming unstuck yet again. I spent so many hours searching the net to see if any one else had the same problem and asked here. Then so many days getting it all fixed.I'm going to have a go at making an exact copy of my active partition and the bootable CD and all that stuff but I have to read up on it first. Now I shall toddle off and repost my other question. |
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