Sunny wrote:
My question is whether you can pick and choose from the CD which updates you want to use(?) Someone else asked which antivirus was included: EZ Armor LE(?!?) Never heard of it...
I checked out the Microsoft Security Update CD. Here is a copy of the information I was given AFTER I clicked the "Install Updates" button:
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Install Updates
We recommend that you install the software updates included below for Windows XP. These updates include reliability, performance, and critical security enhancements. We have also included the latest releases and security patches for Windows Media Player and DirectX for your convenience.
Once you have completed the installations you should continue to keep your computer protected by visiting Windows Update for the most recent updates and enhancements.
Please wait while we detect your computer's configuration.
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Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) is designed to ensure Windows XP platform compatibility with newly released software and hardware, and includes updates to resolve issues discovered by customers or by Microsoft's internal testing team. Windows XP SP1 includes Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1. Read More online.
Windows XP Service Pack 1 or higher has been detected on your machine, you do not need to take any action.
Update Rollup for Microsoft Windows XP
Read more Install
This update consists of previously released critical and security updates, for Windows XP, run as one convenient installation. Installing this item provides you the same results as installing the individual updates. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
Windows Media Player 9 Series (Windows XP)
Read more Install
DirectX 9
Read more Install
DirectX 9 has been detected on your machine, you do not need to take any action.
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I got my CD the same day I got my new computer which came preloaded with WinXP Pro sp1a, so my new PC was pretty up-to-date to start with. The CD only contained updates from October 2003 and earlier so it didn't offer me much. I saw that two update items were listed for my system:
-The WinXP Update Rollup
and
-The Windows Media Player 9 series which I didn't think I wanted or needed since Windows Media Player for WinXP seemed to work fine.
I was told that SP1 and DX9 were already found on my system so I was not given the choice to select those updates.
The "WinXP Update Rollup" includes a number of different updates according to the mskb article on using the CD:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833242 How to obtain and use the Windows Security Update CD (February 2004)
many of which I didn't need, but it appeared that it was "all or none" so I ended up not using the CD and, instead got only the updates I needed, as well as the newer updates not offered on the CD, from Windows Update
This is copied from the "Microsoft Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition" section ofthe above article:
To install the updates that are on the Windows Security Update CD, follow these steps.
(snip)
Step 2: Install updates
The following updates are installed by the Windows Security Update CD:
* Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
* DirectX 9.0b
* Windows Media Player 7.1 in Windows 98
* Windows Media Player 9 in Windows 98 Second Edition or in Windows Millennium Edition
* MDAC 2.8
* The security hotfixes that correspond to each operating system
Try running the CD and see what choices you are given in Win98. It might be that you have to install all or none of the hotfixes.
EZ Armor LE is a security suite made by Computer Associates and includes a firewall based on ZoneAlarm (which I've never used) and an antivirus program, which is the successor to InnoculateIT antivirus which I have used for years and still have installed on my Win95 machine.
Here is the website for EZ Armor:
http://www.my-etrust.com/products/UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
