This built-in tool is a better option.

In a post on the Windows Update Product team blog, Nate Clinton, program manager in the Windows Update group at Microsoft, said the issue is limited to users that have used the "Repair From CD" ...

Hello.<BR>My XP SP1 runs for a couple of years off a Western Digital ATA100 disk. There are 3 disks in total in this system split in multiple partitions.<BR>Trying to refresh XP from the CD, it set up ...

I so didn’t need this. I’m a long way from my home office and I helped some family members to update their Windows XP PCs with February’s massive set of Windows patches. Since they fixed a lot of ...

Microsoft’s most recent release of security patches is causing some computers to … display a, er, black screen of death. … [The] latest patches [are] causing havoc for some Windows fans. … Redmond ...

Earlier this month, researcher Scott Dunn, in an article in the Windows Secrets newsletter, revealed that Microsoft had been modifying files on users' PCs that are used by Windows Update to determine ...