Windows XP Pro Updates ( 1ST Build )

[Charlie W]

When I frist tried to update XP it brought up an error number 0x8DDD0004. I sent this to Microsoft & in the mean time I was having to go to hospital having some tests done.These tests lasted for about 3 days When I finally got to see what Microsoft was wanting to know, what maybe had caused the problem, they had already closed the case. The only thing I know why it would not get updates, I did not have computer set to do automatic updates . I downloaded 4 I think that day, after I enabled automatic updates. I went back to windows update the next day and it came up with sixty eight updates. Some of them were priority updates I think 1 or 2 might have been critical updates.

Do I have to download all of these updates and should I download them in the order they are lined up on the page ? Or do all of them even apply to my version of windows? I noticed one of the updates was for Media player 6 . I have media player 9 with this version of XP.

Am I correct in thinking all I need to download right now are the priority and critical updates ? So I can go ahead & get motherboard driver updates, DVD drive driver updates & other software installed, such as anti-virus and firewall, & spyware software, then go back download the rest of the windows updates.

Will I be asked what location to download these updates too? If so what would be the location?
Also will I be asked a location for any drivers that I update & what would that locatione be?

Thanks for help with my feeble brain.

[glc]

68 sounds about right. I hope you have high speed Internet. Get all criticals and priorities at the same time. They will download and self-install, no user intervention needed except to agree to a couple EULA's.

All you need to do is run the motherboard CD to install all those drivers, plus install video card drivers (if you have a card). The DVD drive doesn't need drivers, but you need to install the software it came with.

[Charlie W]

Thanks glc, I guess I'm in for a long night of downloading as I have dial up right now. Hoping my phone company will get their act together with the dsl. One of my neighbors I know has dsl & does not live more than 50 yards from my house. The phone company says they can only give out a certain number of accounts in an area.

[glc]

Ask your neighbor if you can bring your computer next door and hook up to his router to get the setup done.

No cable in your area?

[Charlie W]

GLC,I do not know if there is cable around or not. I live in country about 15 miles from nearest larger town. I have DISHNETWORK. I found out today I can get DSL from phone company. They are sending free modem also. I had to get get their second fastest DSL speed to get the free modem but I think it will be worth the price which will be around $32.00 a month. I should have modem by the 19th of this month.

I got all the updates downloaded from Microsoft. Took about 2.5 hours. That's not that bad since I have a slow dial up. I think its just around 24 kbps.

The only update I did not get is IE 7. Have they worked all the bugs out of this browser yet? If so I will update to IE 7. I am using Firefox most of the time. I have to , to use this forum or I did when I was using old laptop running "98. I am on my new computer as I write. Thanks for your help & feedback.

[glc]

If you are using Firefox and like it, there's no reason to get IE7.

[Charlie W]

I like firefox alright so far. I'd like to use IE also. More used to it. Does anyone know if IE 7 is working properly ?

[glc]

Some people love it, some people hate it. If you have a clean, freshly loaded system it should install and work fine. It's the crudded up machines that seem to have issues with it. Note that it's a pretty big download - best to wait for broadband.