"marty" <marty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B9F88AF7-8855-497B-9FEC-36D8D4FB37A3@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> hi, i however can believe that from 3-6-07 to present day (incuding today
> i
> have recieved 44 updates not including office .i have had my laptop since
> march this year so god knows how many updates in total i have had . i
> suppose
> it all depends on weather the os has been updated while it was sitting on
> a
> shelf waiting to be sold it could have been installed in a laptop then
> boxed
> up and left untill it was sold to you but a later one will be more upto
> date
> because the os was installed more recently .the worrying thing is when sp1
> comes out it will include all the updates released to date so i would take
> a
> short holiday while that gets downloaded ,according to a white paper i
> read
> yesterday it will be about 7gig alot of which can be reclaimed after the
> instalation ,possibly because the updates are already installed (so why
> bother including them )[/color]

Service packs usually include all the fixes upto the time it was finalised..
As for 7G? well XP SP2 is about 200M if you download it as a selfextracting
executable but only about 80M if you download it using update.
This is because update only downloads the bits for you version of XP while
the executable has them all.
I expect Vista will be the same.
If it isn't its going to take me a couple of hours to download if M$ can
keep up.