From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , CRNG   
    writes   
   >On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:36:49 +0100, Ian Jackson   
   > wrote in   
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   >>In message ,   
   >>casey.o@home.com writes   
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   >>>You'd think Microsoft would offer their final upgrades on CD or an ISO   
   >>>file, but they're too busy pushing their latest bloat....   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>I too would have thought that a final all-embracing bumper-bundle of XP   
   >>updates (call it SP4) would have been a good idea.   
   >   
   >MS isn't interested in doing anything that would extend the   
   >functionality of XP.   
   >   
   >>However, would a   
   >>service pack make you have some of the updates you didn't really want?   
   >   
   >I wouldn't trust such an update even if they did provide one.  But   
   >then, I haven't updated my WinXP since 2008 and I haven't had any   
   >problems.   
      
   'Tis indeed said that many have had no problems when they haven't done   
   any updates.   
      
   I personally used to be pretty lax when it came to doing updates. I had   
   updates turned completely off for months on end (to avoid the constant   
   annoyance of being notified that new updates were available). When the   
   spirit moved me, I would manually have a look, and download all those   
   that didn't appear to be totally irrelevant. I can't say letting the   
   updates get well out-of-date ever caused a problem - except possibly on   
   the extremely few occasions when I found that something I wanted to run   
   needed a certain missing update (or at least complained about it). On   
   the other hand, I suspect that some updates are undesirable (for   
   example, I understand that one of them was probably responsible for   
   suddenly preventing my Epson scanner using TWAIN - and so I can only use   
   WIA on that particular PC).   
   --   
   Ian   
      
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