From: Ellen K. 

I think on W2K and XP they can't.

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:06:43 -0600, John Cuccia 
wrote in message :

>Further, I think it is ludicrous that application patches can update
>my OS.  That only serves to increase the chances of patch-induced
>problems.

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