hi , your probably right i dont think it it will be as bad as it the white
paper suggests have you read this courtesy of pete folds
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"dennis@home" wrote:
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> "marty" <marty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > 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
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> 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.
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