Artwork: Chip Taylor Bug fixes and security patches don’t make for the most exciting Windows update, but they’re the high points of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, now widely available for download. * ...

If you’re running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or even Service Pack 3, what happens if you have to perform a system recovery using your original XP CD? Hassles, that’s what. Reader Ralph recently ...

Includes more than 300 security and performance patches in one installation; has easy deployment instructions for network installations; adds Java Virtual Machine; comes with an uninstall option. Huge ...

As Microsoft moves toward shorter and shorter release cycles -- meaning a new version of Windows and other server products every 12 to 18 months, in all likelihood -- I'm wondering if their marketing ...

A collection of software fixes and enhancements that is applied to an installed version of an operating system. Always a major update, service packs are typically downloaded from the Web as part of an ...

Perhaps the most well-known change in store for Vista Service Pack 1 users is the alleged improvement in file-copying speeds between SP1 machines and Windows Server 2008 computers. Some tests — using ...

The engineering team responsible for building and releasing service packs has reportedly been told there won't be another service pack for Windows 7. It marks the first time in multiple releases that ...

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Microsoft is eliminating service packs for Windows client and Windows Server, going forward -- replacing these updates with more rapidly delivered, incremental Windows releases, starting with "Blue." ...

Next time you wipe your PC's hard drive clean and reinstall Windows with that old installation disc, you don't want to connect your fresh, unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to ...

Windows Service Packs have been a part of most modern Windows versions for quite a while. There are hints, however, that service packs may be killed off. The era of "constant updates" is here.

I'm trying to set up a Windows NT 4.0 server on a dual PII from scratch. I've installed 4.0 server and everything looks good. When I got the SP6 cds from Microsoft it said to install service pack 3 ...