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hey guys,
Soon I will be needing to install XP SP3 updates on the DAW partition of my machine's HD, but its copy of XP is not internet-enabled or at least I've never configured it to be. I'm wondering what the best way would be to get updated to SP3. Should I use Windows Update even though the advice from the DAW PC builder was to never use that copy of XP (the DAW partition) to go on the internet?
To be ultra-clear, I definitely do NOT want to install a whole new copy of XP; I just want to add the patches and bring it up to SP3... just as is done through Windows Update, but, I'm not sure whether it would be a mistake to go onto the net even once from there.
As you all know, the whole point of the separate disk partition and separate O/S for DAW work is to keep the O/S for the DAW totally "unpolluted" by any internet activity, which keeps it very stable and free of the gremlins that can come from net use.
I've found a Microsoft download for SP3, but the description confuses me because it sounds like it is the whole enchilada---the entire XP O/S including the SP2 or SP3 patches---but I don't need the whole thing; I only need the patches.
Can anyone straighten me out on how to do this safely? Should I just enable internet connectivity, do the Windows Update thing, and then disable internet connectivity again?
thanks,
SR
Soon I will be needing to install XP SP3 updates on the DAW partition of my machine's HD, but its copy of XP is not internet-enabled or at least I've never configured it to be. I'm wondering what the best way would be to get updated to SP3. Should I use Windows Update even though the advice from the DAW PC builder was to never use that copy of XP (the DAW partition) to go on the internet?
To be ultra-clear, I definitely do NOT want to install a whole new copy of XP; I just want to add the patches and bring it up to SP3... just as is done through Windows Update, but, I'm not sure whether it would be a mistake to go onto the net even once from there.
As you all know, the whole point of the separate disk partition and separate O/S for DAW work is to keep the O/S for the DAW totally "unpolluted" by any internet activity, which keeps it very stable and free of the gremlins that can come from net use.
I've found a Microsoft download for SP3, but the description confuses me because it sounds like it is the whole enchilada---the entire XP O/S including the SP2 or SP3 patches---but I don't need the whole thing; I only need the patches.
Can anyone straighten me out on how to do this safely? Should I just enable internet connectivity, do the Windows Update thing, and then disable internet connectivity again?
thanks,
SR