Thanks for that Doug - I'll just keep on wading through the downloads.  I've
done the 5.01 and the 5.5, guess I oughta get 6 although after my recent
experience, I don't plan to use it myself.

But what puzzles me about the MS download site is the bewildering number of
patches and security updates that are available, and I'm darned if I know
which of them to go for.  Any ideas on this?

Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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> At 3/18/2002 10:14 PM, Ian wrote:
>
> >I finally got my downloads from MS's archives to work, so I'm just
getting
> >the stuff stashed now.  So what can you get on CD?  Are all the
> >multitudinous IE and OE patches, versions, security and critical updates
etc
> >etc available?  I can keep on downing this stuff, but it takes a queer
long
> >time on a dial-up, I can tell you.
>
> The IE upgrades (5.5 and 6.0) are the only things that I know of that are
> available from MS on a CD.  I suppose the reason is that these are really
> big but most of the patches and updates are individually fairly small (but
> a lot of them).  I also wish that MS would periodically come out with a
> Patches and Updates CD that I could take to other PC's that have slow
> connections.  I've resorted to downloading them and burning them on a CD
> myself but it is a big bother.  Also not convenient for those with 28.9
> modems.
>
> Doug

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