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Disable Microsoft Messenger Service In Windows XP
Talkback I installed the Windows update, and no luck. I can't believe it was in my own system and MS has not done anything about it. Thanks a lot for the article. I have spent many hours trying to get rid of those damn pop-ups.
[September 7, 2003, 23:20]
Microsoft Releases Windows Update Blocker
News Microsoft has released a toolkit to let businesses block service pack updates for Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003. The toolkit, available from Microsoft's download site, will block service packs for limited periods of time.
[December 10, 2007, 14:39]
Update Windows Today - Before It Gets Blasted
News Companies and home users should use Microsoft's Windows Update service immediately, before it comes under attack from systems infected with the MSBlast worm this Saturday say security experts. The attack is unlike any seen before and Microsoft...
[August 12, 2003, 14:24]
Microsoft: Pirate Software Will Not Be Supported
News Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), slated for release by June, boasts major security improvements and is viewed by industry watchers as a milestone in the company's Trustworthy Computing push.
[May 11, 2004, 13:35]
Beta XP Update Ready For Download
News The beta version of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, issued late on Wednesday, is available now for download through BetaPlace, Microsoft's site for registered beta testers. Microsoft has released a test version of the second major update to its...
[December 19, 2003, 9:15]
Windows 2000 Bug Fixes Creep In
News Service Pack 2 could help revitalize Windows 2000 sales as Microsoft enters its fiscal year 2002 at the beginning of July. Microsoft has quietly posted a second collection of Windows 2000 bug fixes, indicating the official release of an update...
[May 14, 2001, 9:26]
XP Service Pack 3 Delayed
News While Windows Vista is nearing completion, Microsoft has delayed the next service pack update for its predecessor, Windows XP. This week, Microsoft updated its lifecycle Web site to note that the introduction of Service Pack 3 — the next XP update...
[October 20, 2006, 10:10]
Microsoft Puts Back First 64-bit Windows
News The long-awaited security update to Windows XP -- Service Pack 2 -- has taken longer than expected and is now set to ship in August. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it has delayed an update to its Windows Server software as well as the first version...
[July 28, 2004, 8:45]
SP2 Trickles Down To Home PCs
News Placing SP2 to the Windows Update service is the final step in Microsoft's introduction of the security patch. The first computer owners to get Windows XP Service Pack 2 began receiving it on Wednesday night, Microsoft said.
[August 20, 2004, 8:25]
Microsoft Gears Up For Worm's Blast
News Microsoft hopes to be ready when hundreds of thousands of computers infected with the MSBlast worm start pelting its Windows Update service with data requests at midnight on Friday. The company has taken steps to try to dodge the denial-of-service...
[August 14, 2003, 8:40]
Microsoft Accelerates Windows Security Update
News A Microsoft executive has said the company will launch Service Pack 2 for Windows XP in December, months earlier than the company forecast on its Service Pack roadmap. At the Citrix iForum in Florida on Tuesday, Microsoft's corporate vice president...
[October 15, 2003, 13:35]
Longer Wait For XP Update?
News The company had planned to wrap up development this week on Windows XP Service Pack 2, but a Microsoft representative said on Wednesday that the software giant had decided that more work was needed on the update before if could be released to...
[August 5, 2004, 8:25]
Next XP Release Slips Back
News Microsoft has shifted a significant number of its Windows staff to the service pack release, in a move that has also pushed back the company's timeframe for launching Longhorn, which is the next major update to Windows.
[April 29, 2004, 8:35]
Microsoft: No SP5 For Windows 2000
News Microsoft has decided to make its final update to Windows 2000 largely a collection of previously released fixes rather than an all-new service pack. Because Microsoft believes the Update Rollup will meet the needs of customers better than a new...
[November 30, 2004, 7:45]
Peer-to-peer Networks Carry Surprising Cargo
News Peer-to-peer advocacy group Downhill Battle has made a copy of Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2 available at a site called SP2torrent.com through the BitTorrent file-sharing system. Downhill Battle's effort plays on the fact that although the...
[August 11, 2004, 9:00]
Windows XP SP3 Out By End Of April
News The third and final service pack for Windows XP could be available by the end of April, according to a leaked Microsoft schedule. Other XP users will get access to the pack on 28 April via Microsoft Update, Windows Update and the Download Center...
[April 16, 2008, 12:17]
SP2 To Be Forced Out
News Microsoft is alerting customers that it will soon start delivering Windows XP Service Pack 2 to all customers using Automatic Update, whether they want it or not. At the end of this period (after April 12, 2005), Windows XP SP2 will be delivered to...
[February 28, 2005, 8:50]
64-bit Windows Nearly With Us
News The Windows Server update adds a number of the security enhancements Microsoft added to Windows XP with Service Pack 2. The company said it has reached the "release candidate" stage for Service Pack 1 of Windows Server 2003.
[December 8, 2004, 8:10]
Windows Server Gets An Update
News The company said that Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 is currently available for download via Microsoft's site and will soon start showing up on new servers. The release to manufacturing of Service Pack 1 is also a milestone for Microsoft...
[March 31, 2005, 9:00]
Microsoft Delivers New Patching Tools
News After several delays, Microsoft has delivered an overhaul of its corporate patching tool and the promised successor to its Windows Update service Microsoft has blamed the delays in part on work it had to do on Windows XP Service Pack 2, a mammoth...
[June 8, 2005, 9:15]
