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SMSPacificNW
AskWoody LoungerI rely heavily on your expert patch-or-don’t-patch opinions, and I find the almost-most-useful information in the Patch Summary Table at the end of the Patch Watch issues. PLEASE provide a fully cumulative table, with every opinion’s current status, every time. I mean one that goes back indefinitely. You may wish to differentiate the most recent changes (e.g., from Wait to Install) or the newest, not-previously-addressed opinions in some way (separate, partially-redundant table, color, italics, or whatever). I am also requesting that the patches be listed in numerical order, perhaps with a linked, correspondence table. In this way, when I consider a given Windows Update patch, I can simply look up your current, vitally-valuable opinion rather than having to work through prior published issues.
Boy, would this make things easier for us users!
Thank you for your consideration.
. . . SMS
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SMSPacificNW
AskWoody LoungerVERY nicely-done. Value-added for sure. Thanks, Fred.
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SMSPacificNW
AskWoody LoungerYou guys (responders to my original posts) are great! Thank you so much for taking time to provide meaningful advice.
Straight tech support is typically relatively non-committal, but systems like this are invaluable due to their openness, freedom of expression, and caring contributors.
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SMSPacificNW
AskWoody LoungerYou guys (responders to my original posts) are great! Thank you so much for taking time to provide meaningful advice.
Straight tech support is typically relatively non-committal, but systems like this are invaluable due to their openness, freedom of expression, and caring contributors.
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SMSPacificNW
AskWoody LoungerThanks, jscher2000, for your very rapid reply! I’m pretty sure I’ll stick w/ZAP, and I think I’ll wait a bit more to install SP2. I assume Microsoft tweaks the SP as it “matures.”
Anyone else have opinions about this stuff?
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SMSPacificNW
AskWoody LoungerThanks, jscher2000, for your very rapid reply! I’m pretty sure I’ll stick w/ZAP, and I think I’ll wait a bit more to install SP2. I assume Microsoft tweaks the SP as it “matures.”
Anyone else have opinions about this stuff?
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SMSPacificNW
AskWoody LoungerThanks. Charolette. Still, my beginning Access students can get confused if the database displays and structures I show them on my projection screen differ from what they’re seeing on their own screens. I have successfully, temporarily, and individually renamed my *.mdb files to *.mdbx and Briefcased them without a replication problem; I just wanted a batch/wholesale way to do it. When I used to have Xtree software, it would have handled the problem with aplomb.
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