Windows XP Users

[Erik]

banned for warez

[Guest]

out there wrote:
who updates windows? bah...

I don't do all the updates, just the ones that I need/want and the security updates of course. For example, I needed .net framework 1.1, directx 9.0c, and a couple of other things on a machine I recently rebuilt.

[out there]

i don't know that i would consider directx a windows update, but a universal set of drivers, a standard if you will. the .net framework... a windows component (similar to office) that is utilized by various programs. correct me if i'm wrong on any of ths stuff, i'm just going from memory

[Guest]

directx was developed by microsoft, there are plenty of distributable versions of it however it is harder to find beta versions w/o going direct to microsoft. I like to have the beta version as I try to beta test 2-4 games per year and many require that you have the beta versions.

.net was needed only for use of an auto mapping interface used in EQ2.

[out there]

chuck, i just installed a copy of windows on a paranoid friend's computer... and he is insistent upon getting updates. anyway, i tried the steps you listed, and i cannot find this "manage add-ons" option. a little more help?

[Guest]

its a choice under the "Tools" tab of IE6

Doing a screenshot for you here in a sec..

[Guest]

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[Stormwalker]

haha Chuck, you're breaking the unwritten interw3b rules by having firefox start as your homepage in IE.

[Guest]

I'm crazy like that yo...

[out there]

what if i tell you that this machine has ie 6.0.28 and i can't find a place to get .29? .28 doesn't have the "manage add-ons" menu item, hence the reason that i asked.

[SmitEvo]

so he doesnt have a tools menu option. Then from there goto manage add ons........the only reason i am asking is because i might have made tjamz screen shot too small.....sorry tjamz.

[out there]

there is a "tools" menu, it lacks "manage add-ons"

[SmitEvo]

out there wrote:
there is a "tools" menu, it lacks "manage add-ons"

cool, i should have known that you arent that computer illiterate.

[Guest]

you need to download service pack 2 (from someplace other than microsoft....do a search, its out there) before you can get around the validation tool and get the "Manage Add-ins" screen

[SmitEvo]

99slowGSX wrote:
.....or when you get to the update page where is says express or custom, just enter this

windows update hack:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

you can download service pack 2 straight from microsoft....just enter this java script line

[Guest]

yeah, that works too.....