Recommended patches for post SP 2 XP

[aftertaf]

I am preparing a new ghost for industrial production lines. It is a P4 3 Ghz with hyperthreading, 2 x 80 Gb hardware RAID 1 drives, 512Mb DDR. It uses a custom made intensive application.

It has XP SP2 installed.

Can anybody recommend any patches or updates since SP2 that i really should install... i.e. urgent fixes, security issues etc... but that wont slow down the PC . Or on the contrary, any that i really should avoid?

I think genuine advantage will be one to avoid (even though we have a group licence and are 100% legal and covered in that respect.). I dont want the PCs complaining that WGA cannont connect to the Internet, maybe this Windows is not valid....... :-/
Thanks for any help...

David

Aftertaf
We shall prevail, and they shall not

 

[linney]

The only ones I refuse are the Genuine Advantage one you mention, and all those Malicious Software Diagnosing tools, which seem to go back for months with different versions for each month, and seem to think if you don't want one particular month you ought to have another month's version.




Dump Windows Update, use alternatives

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/060629/

Genuine Advantage is Microsoft spyware

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/060615/

To auto-update or not to auto-update

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/060525

When Automatic Updates can be harmful

http://windowssecrets.com/comp/060511

http://windowssecrets.com/

 

[aftertaf]

thanks...

in the meantime, to enable updates, it stuck me with the WGA tool.
i'll wait for spyware remover to get rid of it for me

Aftertaf
We shall prevail, and they shall not