XPost: alt.windows-xp, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
      
   On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:36:49 +0100, Ian Jackson   
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   >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....   
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   >I too would have thought that a final all-embracing bumper-bundle of XP   
   >updates (call it SP4) would have been a good idea. However, would a   
   >service pack make you have some of the updates you didn't really want?   
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   This brings up a question.  What have the updates since SP3 really done?   
   Since I cant install them on dialup, I have not.  I have SP3 saved and   
   update to there.  I'm aware that soem of the updates are security   
   related.  Those I'd like to get.  But what else is there?  Is any of it   
   really needed?  I'd think that by the time to they got to SP3, that all   
   the bugs were worked out.  I'll take a guess that there may be some   
   features added to Media Player.  I know there is a update for IE8 (which   
   I have a a separate file).  What else is there?  I'd think one would   
   need to be a real computer whizz to know all the details.   
      
   From what you said here, if there was a SP4 released, couldn't it be   
   made selective, so the user could select what they want?  I know when I   
   install SP3, it just does it, but for example, when I installed XP or   
   even Win98, I can choose to install or not install certain things, such   
   as the games, or specific utilities, or that feature that for people   
   with disabilities (cant think of the name of that).  I can also go back   
   and remove parts later.  I removed OE and Windows Messenger recently   
   from one of my new installs, because I will never use them.  On my Win98   
   computer, I removed IE, which is mostly a part of the actual OS, but   
   there is a way to remove the part that loads as a browser.  I removed   
   that years ago, and it did not hurt anything, in fact it made the OS run   
   faster.   
      
   It would be nice to see a text file that actually shows what all the   
   updates are.  If i could see such a list, and noticed something that   
   seems real important, I'd probably download those as files.  Thats one   
   nice thing about using Win98, it dont attempt to install them, it just   
   saves them.  I guess the same thing could be done if booted from Linux   
   or any other OS.   
      
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