If you have a cable modem, a visit to update site can get your 75+ hot fixes in maybe 30-45 minutes, just depends. This is much easier and faster than doing it one at a time. If, however, you still want to do this, here are some suggestions on how to proceed. And again it can take some time. First off, you could download, install and run Belarc Advisor. It?s a free program and you can get it from downloads.com. Belarc will list all the hot fixes installed on your computer and maybe any that are not installed that need to be installed. Second, you can go to this web site and individually download and save to disk all the ones you need:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/Browse.aspx?displaylang=en&productID=4C937A02-BAE0-4317-A1A9-0C56CD979D05 -- Select Product Families / Windows / Windows XP / Release date, so that they will be listed in order.
Even if you do this ?this? way, then when you go to install them it will take a ?lot? of time to ?install? them as you would install ?each? one, one at a time, with many reboots involved. Again this can take a lot of time.
However, there are other ways. All the time that you might spend doing the above process, you could actually devote to learning how to ?slipstream? your copy of windows xp + sp2 + hot fix ?patches?. This is what I have done. There is a program called ?nlite?, Google it, (there are of course, many others like it) it has a step by step guide on how to do this. And they have ?patches? for the hot fixes, so you don?t have to download them individually. ?And?, you can even ?slipstream? some of your favorite programs, like maybe Zone Alarm, AVG anti-virus, Microsoft Works, etc. On my CD, I have slipstreamed 25 programs, they call them ?add-ons?. Once you have your CD, a reformat will be much more complete and secure and actually faster, before you ever connect to the Internet, and your visit to windows updates, afterwards, will be much easier.
Just a suggestion,
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