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Eric Burke reports some issues with Windows update - an update keeps showing as available. While we haven't seen that problem here, my wife's system (XP Home) has had some real issues with update. At some point last year, update broke her dhcp client. After each reboot, the machine was blissfully unaware of the net - running the network wizard always worked. Tiring of this, we set it up as a static IP, and that worked fine for months. When yet another worm/security issue came up, we used update again to patch - and the damn update mechanism did the following:
Told us the machine needed to be rebooted
Helpfully reset networking (w/o telling us!) to dhcp
Returned us to the no network on boot state
So we reset networking to static, rebooted, and got a clean connection. We are now very wary of Windows Update - there's really no good reason for the property setting changes it did.
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