RE: The Priorities of Microsoft

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Jones, John (US)
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:34 AM
>
> When starting on a fresh Windows install, I've found the most
> efficient method is to do the items that can only be done by
> themselves first and doing the necessary reboots as requested.
> Then download the things that don't have to be done individually.
>  This lets you bulk-download the supplemental stuff as well as
> the fixes for the stand-alone downloads in one shot.  When
> building my wife's upgraded PC a couple of weeks ago, the
> bulk-download was over 70MB.  Thank goodness for broadband.

BTW, M$ offers a free security update cd-rom which has all the security
patches up through October 2003 (I think).  However, when I used it after
the first scratch install I did, it locked up my system (twice from the
cd-rom, and once after I copied the image of the cd-rom to the HDD, hoping
it might work better there), and finally, I had to use Windows Update to get
the patches.  Still for others, it might work better, and would partially
address the issue Tom brought up about going online without adequate
protection.

> BTW, even after that you should keep going back to Windows Update
> until there aren't any more downloads to get as you never know
> when downloading one patch will trigger another (why CUMes aren't
> available I couldn't tell you).

In fact, after I had installed all of the security updates from the Windows
Update site, another one appeared that I remember thinking "superseded" an
earlier security patch.

> BTW, if running MS Office, don't forget to go to the Office
> Update site as well.  I use the link from Windows Update.

Not sure, but I think M$ offers a free cd-rom for Office Update, but only
for the newer versions.  Nothing for Office97.

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