>Mid last week I went to "Update Windows". There it listed that I did not need any "Security Updates".
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>It listed IE5.5SP2 so I downloaded and installed it. All went well.
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>This morning I decided to "Update Windows" again and to my surprise it now listed a April 02 security update as being required. I believe strongly that I had previously installed that one!
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>I (re)installed it and all seems well.
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>But this has gotta be crap! Here I was comfortable that I had all security fixes installed and I only really went there to see if the Windows Media Player component that I had downloaded DURING the Ballmer video had been eflected as installed there now (it didn't seem to be) so I only ACCIDENTALLY found out about the "problem" which was none of my doing.
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>Boy, I sure hope they've cured stuff like this with the XP release!
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>VFP - mentioned to hopefully keep this thread here.
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>Jim Nelson

Jim,

I agree. Had the same thing happen a couple weeks ago (can't recall which update though it may have been the security one). I also had a good working version of the media player, but it got hosed while running one the updates and I had to reinstall. Very frustrating.

As an aside - since we're in non sequitor territory - I'm having trouble understanding what XP is. Is it the upgrade from W98? I thought that was what W2K was. I've been having all kinds of problems since I upgraded earlier this year to 2K and wondered if I would be better off with XP. Any thoughts?

Renoir