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   Ian Jackson to hermit@dumpster.com   
   Re: Belarc not as easy as I thought... (   
   29 Nov 13 13:48:08   
   
   From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , hermit   
    writes   
   >Ok I just ran Belarc Advisor. It gives a ton of information, but is not   
   >very helpful with xp windows updates only giving a long list and no help.   
   >   
   >It gives me a long list with links to the forever incomprehensible MS   
   >update advisories; that's just a tangled jungle of double talk to me.   
   >   
   >Can anyone tell me which if any of these are really important? The few I   
   >looked at were all for windows media and several look like they are for   
   >sp2 and sp1 boxes. I don't use WM and I already have sp3 stable system,   
   >no security problems I am aware of; av scans are all negative. I imaged   
   >my drive to I can go ahead and try the stuff MS sends me, but if I don't   
   >need to, then why bother?   
   >   
   >How does one tell when the updates/hotfixes were first released?   
   >I am guessing that "hotfixes" means updates you can install when the   
   >machine is running? How does one determine which order they should be   
   >installed? Is there a good app that can do this all at once?   
   >   
   >   
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