I am trying to remove programs not used on our home computer, since recently it has been running a little slow. No pictures on hard drive, all on CD's and have removed programs we no longer use; i.e. games, etc. While doing this I noticed, that microsoft has many security updates for our XP version in our "add or remove" file. Do we need them all, or just the most recent ones? Haven't removed any yet, waiting to hear what others "know" or "think". Thanks. God Bless
Mom 2 my boys
2007-06-14 13:55:56 · 6 answers · asked by mom 2 boys 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
You need them all. Don't delete. Most of them are critical security updates.
Windows has more security holes than a ton of Swiss cheese and removing these updates (patches) for them will put your computer at a large risk of malicious attack.
Good luck.
2007-06-14 14:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-27 11:15:35 · answer #2 · answered by Fidel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't remove any. Patches doesn't cause the system to slow don't. All patches are useful. They protect your computer against viruses and other malware. New patches don't include old patches (except for the IE and Outlook Express cumulative patch). So if you uninstall and old patch, your system will be at risk.
2007-06-14 14:03:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is rarely mandatory First secret agent ware and Viruses could be bumped off whether you may run Hijackthis and placed up the log report on an internet site for help you could Reformat the harddisk and Reinstall domicile windows and additionally you would be sparkling the main important undertaking with Viruses and secret agent ware it the entries in domicile windows Registy sparkling deploy resets the Registry First you may attempt to perceive what sorta an infection you have on the laptop all of them have NAMES this makes finding a removing gadget alot much less stressful additionally try A loose antivirus scanner like AVG 7.5 loose and a secret agent ware Scanner like SPYBOT there are different supplies try finding loose on line test and DONT acquire in the event that they have a loose on line test you wont could acquire their software that wont do something SYMANTEC has a loose on line scanner it hella sluggish can take 8 hrs to run
2016-10-17 07:38:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About the only patch you wouldn't need is SP1 because it was replaced by SP2.
2007-06-14 15:44:20 · answer #5 · answered by Belgariad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, you need to keep all the updates on the computer to keep it secure, there are alot of updates but they are needed to keep the pc secure
2007-06-14 14:04:32 · answer #6 · answered by D McC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋