Window critical update question

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Ray;
One way is to go to the specific article for each update.
That article will list specific items with locations and current date of the
item.

Also the MBSA may help:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/s [...] ahome.mspx

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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"ray" <ray@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do i find out if the window critical security update is truly
> installed
> techically?
> because when i had hp media center 2004/sp2 and all the critical update
> and
> when I upgraded it to HP media center 2005 upgrade cd, i went to
> add/remove
> after installing media center 2005 and notice all the critical security
> update was not there anymore, so i went to window update and check and
> notice
> there is seven critical window update available but there all 0KB/0mb
> size
> with exclamation point next to those security update saying its already
> installed on your computer, i went to check add/remove and its not there
> at
> all, so i decided to installed it again when i did it didn't download the
> update instead it intiliazing....done installed.. after seeing this i
> went
> to add/remove to check if it's installed and all the critical security
> update
> are installed. this is why i want to find out if its truly installed? what
> is
> intiliazing? does it mean all the 7 critical security update file is on my
> computer already and window update is just reinstalling the security
> update
> again.
>
> please help?