![]() ![]() ![]() As popular as XP still is, there will be more choices with more options. ![]() AFAIK, this is the first unofficial service pack for XP. When 98 was getting unofficial updates and service packs, we had multiple options available to us. For me, it would create more work restripping out the components I'd already removed than it would save. The unofficial SP4 includes components and updates for components that I've removed or never installed to start with, Net framework for one. My primary reason for avoiding it is that my XP systems are highly stripped down. If I were running a standard equipped XP, I'd try SP4. Though I advise them to wait a week until applying the monthly WU's because of all the problems. I recommend Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate x86 to everyone else whose machines I work on. Your advice would be prudent to the latter. Keep in mind that in here you're talking to hardcore, OCD whack jobs like myself, not average users. And have everything you do virtualized, being a closed session, reboot, or re-image away from being back to a clean slate.īut that's just me. Tight rules and stateful inspection for both incoming & outgoing packets, allowing only what is absolutely necessary. It's kind of hard to be compromised when you have a virtually non-existent attack surface, a default deny/whitelist OS policy & classic HIPS approach. So why not take advantage of it? Even though I'm quite sure I could survive until 2019 on XP without them and be just fine. I was one of them until stumbling upon these and doing the dirty work myself to find they're perfectly safe/legit. But yet there are also plenty of people out there fairing just fine without any updates to speak of, and care not for any. ![]()
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