Which Pos Xp Downloads Safe ?

Hi, new forum member. Running Windows XP pro, just added POS hack to receive

updates for XP, now find there are 221 critical (?) updates... any experience here with what is safe , or

even useful ? Please share any or all tips or ideas, dont want to crash system, working ok now.

 

Critical Windows Updates are important! 221 Windows Critical Updates is way to many updates to download all at one time.
I suggest you only try to download a few at a time starting with oldest first.

 

Make a backup before proceeding.
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As an aside: Am I the only one to see irony in the thread title?

 

Welcome to Major Geeks.

Do you have the last full update to XP which was Service Pack 3?
If you don't that's probably why so many updates are showing.
The last updates that were after that ended in April three years ago, so as well as SP3 there will have been updates after that.
There was a critical update to XP recently concerning the Wannacry malware. Other than that there have been no new updates to XP since 2014.

 

@MaxTurner - read THIS

 

I've read that before but at this stage the questions to the OP about what the current state of their XP system is, are more important.
And better still address any help you can give to the OP themselves.

 

That POSReady 2009 .reg key became available on May 25th 2014. I added it to XP Pro SP3 that day and received updates every month thereafter until I stopped running XP.

The fact that you (the OP) waited until now to incorporate the .reg key means that there were 38 months worth of downloads waiting for you.

Do as Just Playin says first (Make a backup copy of your current XP/POSReady 2009 installation), then do as katkat says (beginning with the oldest first, download and install a few [no more than 20] updates at a time restarting your computer after each group addition.

The fact that the updates are all critical and not optional means they all need to be installed.

 

I run Windows 7 updates with out an issue with the two packs i just install manually.

I haven't run XP in years,Just about the time windows 7 came out.

I would still update all the critical updates.Some of them could be for the new virus that hit.