>This is paranoia; turn on the XP firewall and you can go online and d/l the >updates just fine... >If you are behind a home router, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.
Some people will tell you with confidence that you can walk barefoot on hot coals. I say: let them do it. Call me paranoid if it makes you feel good. If you have a hardware firewall and you are sure that it has everything properly locked down and you don't do anything else but go straight to Windows update and you said your prayers, you should be able to pull this off. Be quick about going for those updates. >But again, this is a lot of work and time just to avoid using the current >OS. Vista won't scare the horses in the street nor lose the war for the >allies. It just wants a LOT of hardware to work its mojo properly. Now you know why MS is so confident about future Vista sales. You may be better off following Windows user's favorite activity: succumb. You know that eventually they will make it impossible for you to stay with XP. Might as well do it now. Just make sure the PC you buy has all the right specs. Getting all the drivers you need for an XP install is not going to be a picnic either. So your XP driver problems may turn out to be as bad as they would be for Vista. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
