Windows XP updates

[lhyman]

Today I did a job, a computer was severely messed up with viruses. It was an XP and has a Win XP License sticker on it. After running several different anti-virus scans on it and getting nowhere fast. I suggest to the owner that the best way to go was to do a format and reinstall every thing... no problem, I got the OK...

The system was from 2005 and has XP Home on it. I do a destructive HP recovery. The system boots up and everything is fine. I go to the windows update site..... 150 updates, done, reboot, remove some software & add some other software, go to the windows update site, 49 updates, done, reboot

Go to the windows update site, want to install SP3, takes an hour, done reboot

go to the windows update site, 23 more updates, done reboot, no more updates to do..

so the total is 150+49+1+23= 223 updates

man, that's a lot....

[Livewire]

I'm actually surprised you didn't just snag SP3 first - if memory serves SP3 carries a lot of the critical updates with it, and there's a good number of updates that are security updates to stuff like IE6/7, which are promptly replaced with an update that installs IE8 later.

Dunno if it works from base-xp to sp3 or sp1 to sp3, but I know I did it from SP2 to SP3 to save time (and it -did- work for that). Still have to do the SP3 patches but it saves time to skip a whole bunch of other ones.

[faba5594]

Really? It didn't have nearly that many updates for me. I "only" had to reboot three times, and the first time there was only one update. The second two reboots had quite more updates though, but it still didn't amount to nearly that much.

[lhyman]

I tried to install SP3 first but it would not let me, something about the HP & the AMD cpu that would cause it to reboot non stop if SP3 was installed, I was forced to do the 150 updates first....

You have to remember that this was an OEM HP win xp home from 2005

[Livewire]

I tried to install SP3 first but it would not let me, something about the HP & the AMD cpu that would cause it to reboot non stop if SP3 was installed, I was forced to do the 150 updates first....

You have to remember that this was an OEM HP win xp home from 2005

Reboot nonstop? Weeeeeeird, that sounds like some seriously weird hardware :P

@faba: Was close to that many from SP2, I can't remember if 2005 was even XP SP1 let alone 2. It probably did have a few just to get it ready to go to the next servicepack :S

[lhyman]

here is the article from MS on the rebooting problem... I guess the fix was automatic in one of those first 150 updates....

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953356/en-us

and from HP

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...name=c01457284

[zen-r]

How was the system protected during all this downloading?

Had you a good firewall in place?

[lhyman]

How was the system protected during all this downloading?

Had you a good firewall in place?

2wire router firewall & windows xp firewall and AVG anti virus....

[Sharky]

You should be able to get the AMD driver, then go straight to SP3. Service packs are supposed to be cumulative, meaning you shouldn't have to update to get the SP. Apparently there were one or two prerequisites (namely the AMD patch), and it just happened to get a whole load of other things at the same time.

[zen-r]

You should be able to get the AMD driver, then go straight to SP3. Service packs are supposed to be cumulative, meaning you shouldn't have to update to get the SP. Apparently there were one or two prerequisites (namely the AMD patch), and it just happened to get a whole load of other things at the same time.

The problem with these things is that one is often only wise after the event!

Also, I'd imagine that lhyman, not being on his own PC, wasn't previously aware of this AMD driver issue.