Peaches Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Is it Safe to Just Ignore Windows' Service Packs? Lincoln Spector timestamp(1231170900000,'longDateTime') Don Dalton installed Vista's SP1 update, encountered "a multitude of problems," and uninstalled it. Can he safely go on indefinitely without it? “Windows service packs can be the stuff of nightmares. Do you let Microsoft do a major, remote-control overhaul of your operating system that might break something that was working just fine? Or do you ignore a service pack that plugs some serious security holes and is more likely to fix something that's already broken than to break something new? Besides, as the months go by, your unupdated version of Windows will fall farther behind, unable to accept additional updates or even run some new programs. I generally wait about three months after a service pack becomes available before I install it. By that time, the bugs are usually squashed by subsequent updates, and all problems are either fixed or reported.†Story here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/156262/is_i...vice_packs.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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