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XP Pro updates

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Cereal Killer

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I noticed that XP is downloading alot of updates lately, and it's probably just me but XP seems to feel slower, are these pointless updates that are only there to slow me down until I upgrade to Vista? I heard of a similar case with pirated versions of XP but I don't know.
 
Once a month Microsoft rolls out a big bunch of patches, or at least that's been the practice for close to year now. I just did a clean install of XP Pro this morning on some older hardware and stared down 74 updates, but once it was done I just imaged it off on another partition so I can start over anytime I want in about 3 minutes without needing to do that full update again.

It does seem to be getting worse in some respects, but if you keep it up to date, it's not as bad as with the 74 at one time like I just had to grab today.
 
I'm just wondering what these updates actually are. It doesn't say for most of them so naturally, I think that it's garbage to bog XP down to try and push XP users to Vista.
 
Actually, if you click the little + sign next to the updates as they're listed, it tells you what each one addresses before the download. And you can load Windows Update anytime and click "Review your update history" on the left side of the screen/window/page and see what's been installed, with direct info links that pop up a box doing the same thing - providing the info I think you're looking for.

You can always go to http://support.microsoft.com and type the 6 digit keycode into the search box on the upper right side of the screen to get detailed info about each of the updates also. Every one of them is part of the "Knowledge Base" and is assigned a 6 digit keycode like KB928090 (Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP) which would pull up http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928090/en-us which is the relevant page. Hell, you can just keep that URL and change the KB number for each one to get there faster than having to search for individual links.

As for bogging down XP, even with the ~75 updates I've installed in the past 24 hours after a clean install, Vista will never ever ever be as fast as XP is on this older hardware: P4 2.4 w/533 MHz FSB, 1GB of DDR333, 80GB ATA133 7200 rpm drive, ATI 9550 256MB. I do love Vista, really, and I run it whenever I have it installed, obviously, primarily for learning purposes and to keep myself abreast of the relevant stuff I need to know to help others, but XP is and always shall be faster than Vista on the same exact hardware for most day-to-day usage, even after Vista's done it's self-tuning over the first week or two and adjusted itself to your usage patterns.

Hope this helps...
 
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