From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:15:04 -0400, Mike '/m'  wrote:

>>You can still connect to Windows Update manually to select the fixes
>>you want to install.
>
>I really wouldn't suggest doing that, as it resulted in a very unstable system
>for me (I wanted to avoid the W2K service pack with the onerous EULA).  It
>appears that the patches expect to have all previous patches (and service
>packs) installed.  There appeared to be some dependencies which, left
>unresolved, resulted in a system that did not function properly.

I see.  Before I turned on Automatic Updates I connected manually and
installed all critical update and service packs, so didn't have dependency
issues.

In general, Windows Update has worked very well for me.

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