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| Thread ID: 37582 | 2003-09-11 14:06:00 | Newly connected Laptop | frossy13 (4462) | Press F1 |
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| 174669 | 2003-09-11 14:06:00 | Microsoft Updates Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have just connected my Laptop to Internet. There must be about 30 Updates. It took an Hour to do 1 - Direct x. 56k modem Windows XP Should I download the lot for safety. My Internet will be connected for a week LOL(altho its not funny really) By the way I ran the Fixblastexe before I connected and it said I didn't have the worm |
frossy13 (4462) | ||
| 174670 | 2003-09-11 14:13:00 | You know what they say, Better to be safe than sorry. try one a day to keep Viruses away.;-) |
BootyLicious (526) | ||
| 174671 | 2003-09-11 20:04:00 | Just had a thought can I copy them on to CD from my desktop thencopy them to Laptop. That would seem too easy | frossy13 (4462) | ||
| 174672 | 2003-09-11 21:29:00 | > can I copy them on to CD from my desktop thencopy them to Laptop You most certainly can do that provided you manually downloaded the updates from the MS website yourself and both computers are running the exact same version of Windows. Do not try doing this if you have Win XP Home on one computer and Win XP Pro on the other, or similar. I do not have two versions of Win XP but I manually download all the updates and save them for reinstalling after a format. Saves me spending forever online getting them all back again, but it still takes a very long time reinstalling them. :-( |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 174673 | 2003-09-11 21:46:00 | Just make sure you also run the FixBlaster check after you've updated with all the latest patches (Dont forget to check the main page of PressF1 for another fix for an ms.blaster-like hole). Funny thing is that most people are kinda stuck... (If they dont have a firewall) Do they go online to fix the problem and risk getting the latest viruses which will prevent them from going online to get the very patches they want to prevent them? Almost amusing if you stop and think about it... ;-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 174674 | 2003-09-12 06:55:00 | Just had another thought what about putting them in the briefcase. Trying to avoid tying up my phone line really. |
frossy13 (4462) | ||
| 174675 | 2003-09-12 08:19:00 | > provided you manually downloaded the updates from the MS website yourself and both computers are running the exact same version of Windows you can download updates for different vers of windows. i usually download the bigger ones (or get them off pcworld disks) which makes it so much easier when you format/reinstall. |
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