On the MS rag ...

It's that time of the month again - when you wish you'd gone to bed with a hot water bottle, and just pulled the sheets over your head.

Two & a half hours in, nine reboots of twenty-six patches in five batches, and the bloody purge has finally dried to a trickle. Many would dismiss Windows XP as menopausal but, as I am acutely aware at the moment, it remains a fertile breeding ground of malformed horrors; which is why -  so far - only the oldest, most wizened, desktop has been permitted to expose its most intimate regions to the risk of a Microsoft *ahem* c%ck-up.

Below are some of the objects that will be thrust into your innards. My advice ? Lie back ,open up, and hum the national anthem whilst bracing yourself; and hopefully ,hopefully, you won't require stitches afterwards.

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Update for Root Certificates [March 2011] (KB931125)

Update for Windows XP (KB2524375)
Security Update for Windows XP (KB2485663) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2508429) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2506212) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2506223) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2511455) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2503658) Cumulative Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows XP (KB2508272) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP (KB2497640) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2507618) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2510531) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2412687) Security Update for Windows XP (KB2509553) Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - April 2011 (KB890830)
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Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2464635) Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB2466156) Security Update for Microsoft Office 2007 System (KB2509488)

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB2509503) Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB2522981) Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (KB2464588) Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (KB2502786)
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Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (KB2467175)

Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (KB2467174)
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Security Update for .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and 3.5 SP1 on Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x86 (KB2446704)
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Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 x86 (KB2446708).