Hi Eleanor, I would turn off the automatic updates warning. Go into control panel then "System" and go to the "Automatic updates tab". Here just activate the "Turn off automatic updates button" and ok it. You may get a new nagging message that your windows pdates is turned off. Open up the security center window and click on the security page. In here uncheck the option to warn me if windows updates are turned off then close out. As windows XP is coming near the end of its life span fewer and fewer updates will be issued and if you ever want to check for any available updates you can click on the windows update icon in the start menu. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 24 August 2011 15:37 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: urgent Link Thanks Paul. Now i have another query. I have to my delight tried a USB dongle broadband. Now I have updated the computer which was dial-up and no way could I update it before. I have Service Pack 3 now installed along with many more updates. Question now is this. The computer is set to Automatic Updates so it very kindly went and got me 72 updates. Two of these updates refer to Service Packs 1 and 2 and will not install. That in itself is not the problem as Service Pack 3 presumably has taken care of that. Now I have an icon in my System Tray which says updates are ready for your computer. Click here to install. I do this and I have 2 options, automatic or custom install. I tried Automatic twice but as I say these 2 updates will not install. I get a message to this effect after some time. Then I chose the custom install and unchecked the radio button to install them. I then closed the window and restarted my computer but again this icon appears in the system tray. How can I get it to know that I do not ever now want these 2 updates? Sorry to have been so long-winded about this but I was trying to give as clear a picture as possible. Eleanor -original message- Subject: [vip_students] Re: urgent Link From: "\(NCBI\) Paul Traynor" <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx> Date: 24/08/2011 3:19 pm Hi Eleanor, Not sure if you still want this SP3 download. I only saw it now and it was in my junk mailbox. Here is a direct link to it. http://shrvl.com/6qQ28 Paul. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 23 August 2011 16:45 To: Vip Students Subject: [vip_students] urgent Link Could someone send me the direct link to download Service Pack 3 for Windows XP home? I an looking for this link as soon as possible. Many thanks. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 4565 of my spam emails to date. 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