Tegger wrote:

I'll bet nobody reading this thread or responding to it has actually
tried performing the above-mentioned updates.

Oh you poor little lost souls.

If you had done it today (and selected "Custom" instead of "Express"
installation), this is what you'd see:

3 Critical updates:

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Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows Server
2003
KB2932079 - MS14-026
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2932079
Download size: 1.1 MB , less than 1 minute

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product
that could affect your system. You can help protect
your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete
listing of the issues that are included in this
update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article. After you
install this update, you may have to restart your
system. Details...

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Security Update for WEPOS and POSReady 2009
KB2926765 - MS14-027
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2926765
Typical download size: 275 KB , less than 1 minute

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product
that could affect your system. You can help protect
your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete
listing of the issues that are included in this
update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article. After you
install this update, you may have to restart your
system. Details...

==================

Security Update for Internet Explorer 8 for WEPOS and POSReady 2009
KB2953522 - MS14-029
AKA Security update for Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and
11: May 13, 2014
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2953522
Download size: 3.2 MB , less than 1 minute

A security issue has been identified in a Microsoft software product
that could affect your system. You can help protect
your system by installing this update from Microsoft. For a complete
listing of the issues that are included in this
update, see the associated Microsoft Knowledge Base article. After you
install this update, you may have to restart your
system. Details...

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Now you go ahead and read those microsoft links. And if you really want
to be so frighted about the state of your XP system less than a month
after "official" end-of-support, you'll read these:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/21546...abilities.html

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-patch...nd-7000029405/

As you read them and notice the MS14-what-ever numbers they mention, go
and glance at what updates you could be installing right now if you
follow my instructions. Those are the same updates being offered to
Win-7 and various other platforms - but not for XP.

Yes, I updated an XP-SP3 system with those 3 critical updates.

And then I selected a bunch of suggested updates (there were about a
dozen of them). One of those was a root certificate update (dated Nov
2013) that for some reason Micro$haft wasn't offering to me before.

One day, maybe soon, you'll realize that yes, POSReady 2009 is XP-SP3
with a different license agreement, and you'll be dying to get those
updates on your systems. So you can thank me now, or thank me later.

And no, Micro$haft will do nothing to prohibit this in the future. The
millions of various POS systems around the world are too important to
**** with by trying to make some change that will prevent this hack from
working on "real" XP systems.

Mark my words. Hear me now and believe me later.

In the mean time you can all shout "We're not worthy!".