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Ken Blake, MVP
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On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:16:45 -0800, Bob wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:55:33 -0600, "Shenan Stanley"
> wrote:
>
> >First, IMHO, you should have gone to SP3 long ago.
> >
> >Now - what needs to be done is a bit of a cleanup, a repair of all of your
> >.NET stuff (1.1, 2.0, 30., 3.5 and soon 4.0 - none have been cumulative in
> >every way - sometimes you need one or the other depending on what software
> >you have and what it was written for), windows update repairs and - as I
> >said, IMHO - you should get SP3 installed.
> >
> >This will take time, effort and your full attention at times - but in the
> >end you should have a fully patched WIndows XP machine that probably runs
> >better than the first day you received it. ;-)
> [snip]
>
> I appreciate your good intentions, but there's no way I'm going to do
> what you suggest when my system runs just fine.
Your choice of course, but SP3, like all service packs, includes a
significant number of security updates. Your system may run "just
fine," but without SP3 you are exposing yourself to potential security
issues.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:55:33 -0600, "Shenan Stanley"
> wrote:
>
> >First, IMHO, you should have gone to SP3 long ago.
> >
> >Now - what needs to be done is a bit of a cleanup, a repair of all of your
> >.NET stuff (1.1, 2.0, 30., 3.5 and soon 4.0 - none have been cumulative in
> >every way - sometimes you need one or the other depending on what software
> >you have and what it was written for), windows update repairs and - as I
> >said, IMHO - you should get SP3 installed.
> >
> >This will take time, effort and your full attention at times - but in the
> >end you should have a fully patched WIndows XP machine that probably runs
> >better than the first day you received it. ;-)
> [snip]
>
> I appreciate your good intentions, but there's no way I'm going to do
> what you suggest when my system runs just fine.
Your choice of course, but SP3, like all service packs, includes a
significant number of security updates. Your system may run "just
fine," but without SP3 you are exposing yourself to potential security
issues.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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