XP Users Complain About Frequent Updates and System Instability

As many as three times a week, on average, XP users see a little window pop-up at the bottom of their computer screens announcing the availability of another new update for their system. This plethora of patches has left many users wondering whether their hard drives are big enough to handle "Trustworthy Computing.". . . As many as three times a week, on average, XP users see a little window pop-up at the bottom of their computer screens announcing the availability of another new update for their system. This plethora of patches has left many users wondering whether their hard drives are big enough to handle "Trustworthy Computing."

Users also complain that several of the patches made their systems unstable. And some were annoyed by the many-megabytes worth of available patches for what they feel are unimportant applications such as games and file-sharing applications, believing that Microsoft should instead focus on fixes for crucial security holes.

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