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re: Question about 'Downloading Windows Updates'
Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 10:57 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve
(590 messages posted)
Yes. Updates interact with a lot of different brands
of hardware drivers. I believe some systems are
buggy after some updates. My ME box when I bought
it 2 years ago was really unstable. I did 3 system
restores over a 2 month period. Since ME is tempermental I thought that was it. After
the 3rd
restore I took my time to reinstall other apps, except
updates. The PC ran really good. I never reinstalled
Critical updates. Then in Feb this year I built A PC and
installed XP. After a week of running and convinced all
was well I went to MS and Loaded the 30 or so updates that were avail. at that time.
The PC went
Postal right after. I uninstalled all of them. Didn't want
to take time to figure which one it didn't like. My XP
Box hasn't crashed since. My ME box is my game PC.
and has run about year and half without any more
Reinstalls. Critical updates have caused me more problems then any hacker ever will.
I did install the
CDRW patch, and a small 32K expite patch that was from a web site not related to
MS but addressing a security issue.
On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 6:41 pm, Marvin McGinnis wrote:
>I have a question about Downloading
>Windows Updates:
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>I downloaded Most recent windows xp security updates about a week ago and since
it
>was getting late, decided to go to bed with my computer continuing to download.
In
>the morning I was unable to turn it off. I turned it off at the surge protector.
>At this point i was unable to have the computer completely load. It would get tom
>desktop but the start menu would not load. I ended reinstalling with factory CD.
>Could the updates have caused the problem?
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