Why Service Packs are Better Than Patches
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"cmptr_iliterate" <> wrote in message:
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| Hello,
| Let me first explain the situation and I'm open to
| any suggestions. I'm using Win2K Professional for about 3
| years now with no problems. Approximately 1 year ago I
| FINALLY "scanned for updates" for Win2K and I installed
| Service Pack 3 for Win2k Professional. Since then, I
| haven't had any problems still but I know its imperative
| to keep my security updated. So today, when I "scanned
| for updates" I noticed I had approximately 41 critical
| updates, 14 Windows updates and 2 driver updates. So I
| manually "added" the critical updates that I thought
| pertained to my pc. The approximately 7 of the 41 updates
| that I didn't "add" were updates regarding Internet
| Explorer 6.0 and Frontpage and Outlook. These are
| programs that I currently DO NOT USE but if I do then I
| will "add" these updates in the future. The updates I did
| choose to "add" took me approximately 1 hour to do because
| I'm using a "dial up modem". Everything as of ten minutes
| ago installed fine.
| Anyways, one thing I did notice in the "critical
| updates" section was a file called "Windows 2000 Service
| Pack 4" or something like that. Anyways, its safe to
| assume that SP 4 is the "latest and greatest" service pack
| versus the one that I currently have installed on my
| machine which is Service Pack 3. I chose not to download
| it because I just figured I would just manually "add" the
| files that I wanted. So the questions I have are the
| following based on my situation:
| 1) What habit should I get into with regards to
| installing Windows Service Packs? In otherwords, should I
| download a Service Pack once it becomes available OR is
| downloading every other Service Pack a good practice since
| the latest and greatest Service Pack will always include
| previous Service Pack fixes and patches that I didn't
| install???
| 2) As I mentioned before, 1 of the 41 critical
| updates included "Service Pack 4". If I would have
| downloaded and installed "Service Pack 4" instead of
| manually choosing which critical files I wanted, would the
| other 40 critical updates that were listed have been
| included in Service Pack 4 download????
| 3) As I mentioned before, the manually critical
| updates that I downloaded were successful. One thing I
| did notice though is that when I went
| to "start>settings>control panel>add/remove programs...I
| noticed that I have a long LIST of all of the critical
| updates that I did (and I have the option to delete
| them). At at the end of the list I see the Service Pack 3
| file that I installed last year. With this said, if I
| CHOOSE in the future to install Service Pack 4, will this
| tremendous list of critical updates disappear since they
| will be included in Service Pack 4 OR should I manually
| delete them FIRST before I download Service Pack 4 because
| I do not want to duplicate files???? Would it mess up my
| pc if I did choose to delete the critical updates that I
| did today and then just download and install Service Pack
| 4 (I hate to sound girly but I just dont like the long
| list of critical files that now appears in my add/remove
| programs...I prefer how the Service Pack 3 file is just
| one clean file. Assuming that Service Pack 4 will include
| that long list of critical updates that appear when I
| perform a "scan for updates" on my pc)?
| Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you in
| advance.
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