From: "Geo" 

"Rich"  wrote in message news:420dc125{at}w3.nls.net...

>>   Why would I want to avoid Windows Update and instead manually update my
system only so that I can have Windows Update report that I succeeded in
doing what it would have done automatically?<<

I do this as a double check to make sure my manual patch method isn't
missing some patch. With 67 (for W2K) different patches you really do need
to check, double check, and triple check your methods because it's easy to
make a mistake.

Geo.

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