I stopped doing that when one of those XP updates disabled my cable modem. The general rule of thumb at work for our *home* machines is to install service packs only. For the machines at work, mostly Win2000, we do a couple of days testing before applying each of the patches.
Paul Ewins Melbourne, Australia > The main point here is surely that Microsoft released a secuirty patch in > July to deal with this: anyone running XP with Live Update enabled should be > secure even without a firewall in place. In today's environment, if you are > running XP and you're not checking for updates on a daily basis, you got > rocks in your head!
