Patch Tuesday

Expect a large load of MS updates and patches this Tuesday. Click on the link and then Executive Summaries to see all 16.

https://www.microsoft.com/technet/se.../ms10-oct.mspx

Upon looking at the link it looks like I will have 11 of the 16 updates applicable to me.

...come on SP1!

Arg! All these updates are starting to annoy me!

Probably not even close to how much it would if someone rooted your machine instead of you having applied them, heh heh.

FC it's just Steve Ballmer sending you his love! LOL!

Probably when SP1 comes out, I'll just do a clean install. That way, most of the updates will come into the SP, and I won't have all of these duplicate updates.

After all, M$ reported that what SP1 would be mostly the updates we already have, so that would be a great time to reinstall. No need to have KB971033 installed twice.

Looks like we're catching up to XP fast!

Cat

First of all, even if you didn't do a clean install you wouldn't be installing duplicate updates. The Service Pack "seeks" for what needs to be updated and only applies those updates. It doesn't install an update if it's already in the system.

But it certainly looks "neater" in appearance to have "Windows 7 SP 1" versus "KBxxxxx, KBxxxxx, KBxxxxxx, KBxxxxx, ect, ect"

I suppose you're correct about that "neatness" part. Personally I don't worry about that because I don't look at my Update Listing but once in a Blue Moon anyway.

There are some things I'm OCD about such as hardware, the correct way to install certain drivers, etc., this little thing I'm not. Personally it's no big deal.

Yeah, agreed there's no need for clean install if original is working well.

I already have SP1 on my machines and they have not been clean installed, and have been upgrade installed, with each leaked and official release since beta 7000.

That's like 30 or 40 upgrades, on each.

All running perfectly. Uptime of 16 days on this computer I'm on now and uptime of 10 on the downstairs machine (the other gets turned off because it's a netbook and my father's.) The only reason uptime isn't longer is because my neighborhood had a power outtage and I don't have any UPS.