Thank you. I had read that article, but I am still worried about removing the patch. I don't know whether I have the "revised" one issued may 28 or not, and when I attempt to delete it, I get all the warnings about potential system problems with removal. Of course, things are plenty bad now, so maybe it's worth a try. Your opinion?
Temporarily remove the original 811493 update
Review the MS03-013 security bulletin to verify that you should install the 811493 security update in your particular environment. If your level of risk permits you to delay deploying the patch, temporarily remove (uninstall) the original patch.
For example, if you are the only person who uses your computer, or if all the users of your computer are computer administrators (or members of the local administrators group),
it is not important that you install this update. For additional information about the scope of the security vulnerability, see the MS03-013 security bulletin. To see the bulletin, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
After the release of SP1 and before the release of SP2, some critical updates for XP1 began to be labelled with (SP2) after the number. This was to indicate that they would be included in SP2.
If you used automatic updates when installing SP2 it would only have downloaded and installed any additional updates not already on your PC at that time. The full SP2 package actually also includes SP1.
When you uninstalled SP2 it returned your PC to the state it was in before you installed it, including the updates you had made to SP1, some of which had the (SP2) in the name.
I would not recommend that you uninstall those updates.
chuket
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As to the Q811493 and Q815021 updates and removal, you can read this article, and i don't show them on my machine:
http://www.updatexp.com/q811493.html
As to Windows XP Hotfix-KB840987, I still have that listed on my XP SP1 machine and don't have any problems.
Pat Kr
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chuket
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December 16th, 2004 13:00
Review the MS03-013 security bulletin to verify that you should install the 811493 security update in your particular environment. If your level of risk permits you to delay deploying the patch, temporarily remove (uninstall) the original patch.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-013.mspx
JRosenfeld
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December 16th, 2004 21:00
After the release of SP1 and before the release of SP2, some critical updates for XP1 began to be labelled with (SP2) after the number. This was to indicate that they would be included in SP2.
If you used automatic updates when installing SP2 it would only have downloaded and installed any additional updates not already on your PC at that time. The full SP2 package actually also includes SP1.
When you uninstalled SP2 it returned your PC to the state it was in before you installed it, including the updates you had made to SP1, some of which had the (SP2) in the name.
I would not recommend that you uninstall those updates.
blondenewyorker
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March 4th, 2005 15:00