Unlike Woody Leonhard, most of the staff at Windows Secrets Newsletter (http://www.windowssecrets.com) recommend anyone who has not yet installed Windows XP SP3 (if you still use Windows XP) should do so now. I have had no problems with this Service Pack, and I usually know pretty fast if something from Microsoft is going to break anything else.
Internet Explorer 8 is ready for prime time now, so download it and update it. Then use Firefox 3.5 and watch for the upcoming stability patch. Both browsers are on my laptop, and I am very conservative about updating browsers. Again, if any major problems were occurring, I would probably know about at least most of them.
And as always, disable Windows Automatic Updates Service through the Administrator Control Panel when not going to MS Updates manually. Also make BITS Service Manual, but do not disable it completely, as some Third-Party programs use this Service. And use Secunia PSI to keep up to date with your plug-ins.
As always, I am solely responsible for any content which appears in this blog. I recommend that anyone reading my summaries should also go to the original posts at the web sites cited.
-- Tues., July 14, 2009, 1:00 AM CDT (USA) -- LittleWolf --
Edited Sun., Dec. 6, 2009, 2:54 PM CST, by LittleWolf .
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