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   hermit formulated the question :   
   > 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?   
      
      
      
   Why are you posting this twice?   
      
   If you have that many missing updates, the first thing you should do is   
   to go to MS Update service.  Belarc is nice to have and has been very   
   helpful to me in keeping my system update, but it is not an update   
   service, it just informs you if you are missing any hotfixes and   
   provides links to acquire them if you choose to do so.  It was very   
   useful in helping me fix the recent IE6 update problem.   
      
   The is not a Belarc problem, more like a user one.   
      
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