From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

The mainframe guys (and NASA) don't rebuild everything for a fix.  Many
decades ago they figured out the notion of leaving some blank space in the
code/data areas for patch space.  Then you only need to ship small deltas
and a small patch application tool.

"geo"  wrote in message
news:3e51343a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> So after a power failure that lasted several hours caused a hard drive to
> fail I found myself reinstalling W2K this morning on one of the desktops at
> work. No problem, grab my W2Ksp3 CD and install it, install IE6sp1 and
> reboot. Ok now at this point I'm running the very latest service packs.
>
> I then go to windows update and find I need 17 updates totally 26.4mb?
>
> 26.4mb of patches in just barely 6 months?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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