And has there been a patch Tuesday to a post XP OS in the past year or so that hasn't F'ed things up?. And I'm sure that in those 10 years they've worked with 3 letter agencies to find crafty ways to hide backdoors into their OS's. It leaks and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. And those improvements (if they even exist) don't come close to compensating for a gargantuan attack surface full of vulnerable services/processes that flat out cannot be closed without bricking the entire OS, because they're tied to essential functionality. I'd say there's been more regression in terms of security & privacy than there has been progression in Windows OS's. And these updates have been there since XP's (supposed) EOL, people just didn't trust them right away and did their due diligence before applying them, as they should have.Īs for the past 10 years. NET Framework 1.1, 3.5 and 4.0 until May 2014 have been included.”Ĭlick to expand.Who's bragging? I was simply correcting myself from a baseless comment I made earlier. You can also scan for POSReady updates, because the POSReady trick has been included. NET Frameworks 4.0, 3.5, 1.1 and 1.0 (Tablet PC only) are included in the Windows XP SP4 package. Request-only hotfixes have been included. “It includes updates for most Windows XP components, including MCE and Tablet PC. It can be applied to a live Windows XP system which has SP1, at minimum, installed or it can be slipstreamed (integrated) in any Windows XP installation media,” the developer says in the description of its pack. “Windows XP Unofficial SP4 is a cumulative update rollup for Windows XP (x86). POSReady 2009 fixes are said to be fully compatible with Windows XP installations, but it’s pretty clear that they cannot offer the same level of protection as the legitimate updates specifically aimed at this platform would do.

Developed by Harkaz, who already has a good background on large pack of fixes for Windows, this new service pack includes all previously released updates for Windows XP 32-bit, as well as POSReady 2009 updates launched by Microsoft after the April 2014 retirement date.

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