[Focault's Pendulum]

Huh, last I knew, Windows Updates only ran with IE, because it required ActiveX, which is only available in IE. When did that change???

Dear Mr Rip Van Winkle. I used to run Win updates on the old Netscape browser back in the nineties.

[dayglored]

> Dear Mr Rip Van Winkle. I used to run Win updates on the old Netscape browser back in the nineties.

So did I, before the updates started requiring IE. That was somewhere in the early 2000's, I think.

Windows Updates on Win7 and later is integrated into the OS as part of Control Panel.

Please tell me how you run Windows Updates on XP without IE. What's the procedure, suitable for an average user? If there's an easy way to do it, I'd love to know.

Of course, updates are disabled for XP now, so I don't expect it to work. I just want to know how you USED to do it on XP without IE.