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97 windows updates!!!

hylax
hylax Posts: 184 Forumite
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Have just bought a refurbished netbook as a little extra. When I shut it down last night there were 97 windows updates. Is this a record? Does anyone have an explanation. It is Windows XP.

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  • free4440273
    free4440273 Posts: 38,438 Forumite
    not out of the ordinary/ if previous updates have lapsed /
    BLOODBATH IN THE EVENING THEN? :shocked: OR PERHAPS THE AFTERNOON? OR THE MORNING? OH, FORGET THIS MALARKEY!

    THE KILLERS :cool:

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  • custardy
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    fresh install
    original version of XP with no service packs
  • GunJack
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    dunno about NO SP's, with only 97 I'd say probably SP2 already installed ;)
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  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
    hylax wrote: »
    Have just bought a refurbished netbook as a little extra. When I shut it down last night there were 97 windows updates. Is this a record? Does anyone have an explanation. It is Windows XP.

    97 updates would mean it is a fresh Windows XP with Service Pack 3 install and no updates have been done. I know that for a fact because of the hundreds I've done myself over the last couple of years.

    Exactly what I'd expect to see from a laptop that has had the OS recovered with a recovery disc.
  • John_Gray
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    I left Ubuntu 10.04 untouched for several months, and had 134 updates (I think it was!) waiting to be installed when next the laptop was powered on.
  • aliEnRIK
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    John_Gray wrote: »
    I left Ubuntu 10.04 untouched for several months, and had 134 updates (I think it was!) waiting to be installed when next the laptop was powered on.

    Are some of those updates security issues?
    :idea:
  • John_Gray
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    I have really no idea - I just let them wash over the laptop!

    But probably not.
  • KillerWatt
    KillerWatt Posts: 1,655 Forumite
    Hammyman wrote: »
    97 updates would mean it is a fresh Windows XP with Service Pack 3 install and no updates have been done. I know that for a fact because of the hundreds I've done myself over the last couple of years.
    I concur.

    Did one the other day, fresh install of XP, fresh install of SP3 (no backup option invoked), and 97 "critical" updates were what was available straight after from WU.

    More updates were found afterwards, but they were only patches for the so called security updates that were part of the original 97 updates that were found on the first visit.
    Remember kids, it's the volts that jolt and the mills that kill.
  • hylax
    hylax Posts: 184 Forumite
    Thanks for all the comments. Everything is working smoothly. Good to get the assurances.
  • hylax
    hylax Posts: 184 Forumite
    Now that I have 2 computers I will be using this forum twice as often. I really appreciate the help I have had on various occasions.
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