The problem is that the windows update service expects to find a patch that isn't there on a standard XP installation.

If you have installed from a vanilla XP SP3 CD you have IE6, if you have embedded patches you may have IE7 or IE8. Verify your IE version and download the appropriate patch. Install it immediately after completing the XP Setup and you are set.

IE6: WindowsXP-KB2879017-x86-ENU.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40612

IE7: IE7-WindowsXP-KB2879017-x86-ENU.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40519

IE8: IE8-WindowsXP-KB2879017-x86-ENU.exe
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40390

Hi, you are right about slashdot attracting people with specific mindsets about the supernatural. Since you posted and you knew what's coming, let me try to respectfully give you the first thought that popped in my head when I read your comment:

If I had a business promoting that:

I can impregnate your wife without actually having any sexual activity with her whatsoever.
I can resurrect the dead at will
I can part the sea and clone food and wine
I can ask you to kill your children just to see if you will do it
I can subject you to eternal suffering if you disobey my orders
I say that if you shop from my business you are superior than the others who shop from other businesses.
Despite of all the above, my business loves you dear customer, come give your money to me.
And so much more....

Would you be even slightly inclined to make fun of my shop ? Maybe tell others on facebook ? Maybe even warn my kids that something is wrong with me ?
Kthxbye

Hi mate, thanks for your kind words.

Let me start by saying that luckily there is no "save Greece" fund, and if it were, please do not ever EVER contribute to it. The money will go to the same fat politicians and businessmen that have ravaged this country's public wealth for years. You see, although there is an international economic crisis all over the world, I can guarantee you that we Greeks have contributed to our own demise by allowing deep political corruption for at least the past 20 years.

As far as the part where you feel that you "owe" us things, I see this differently. It maybe true that sometime far far away some of our ancestors did something good for the world. We would only be worthy of referring to them and their achievements if we had kept up with their tradition and built upon their heritage to do even further good. We did not. I don't know whether it's because we were enslaved by the Turks for more than 400 years, or because we were hit hard by the 2nd world war and the consecutive civil war after that, but we are not the same Greeks as the ones that you refer to.

These are hard times for us. I am lucky enough to still have a job, but I see people close to me unable to feed their children or pay for their bills. Some acquaintances have even been unable to pay the rent. Our streets are filled with homeless people, decent people who just recently found themselves unable to get by with their pension which has been slashed two or three times by our government. Instead of helping each other, most of the people in my country turned -again- to religion and to hatred (i.e. the golden dawn political party). In my opinion the worst thing that came out of this crisis is not the poverty but the realization that most of us are uneducated animals who are guided by the media and turn on each other. Greeks hating Greeks just because they have a different opinion. And we still elect the same people who got us here. After our last election, since no party had the majority of the votes we (the people of Greece) allowed three parties to form a government. Two of these three were the ones who brought us to this situation. Just for fun, image google for "evangelos venizelos" and tell me if he looks trustworthy (just dropped a name out of the corrupted 300 that are now in the parliament).

Personally I would bail out. I would go somewhere else, probably to America where I revisited recently and I found that it really suits me. Unfortunately, family obligations as well as my girlfriend keep me here. I foresee very dark things in our future, not because of the global situation or the economic crisis, but because we -as a nation- allow them to happen. I hope I am wrong, cause it is really a beautiful country and I used to enjoy being here...

Let me begin by saying that I am ashamed to be Greek and to be living in this country. I am ashamed by the acts of more than 50% of the people who now that they have fallen into a tight spot (financially) they show their ignorance and lack of proper education by turning all their false hopes to false and/or irrelevant Gods. Having said that, I would like to point out that as an atheist I feel that most kinds of religion insult my intelligence. However I am defenseless towards them since the "law" chooses to defend only one side. They defend religious people when someone insults their beliefs. If someone insults my logic though, I would have a really hard time convincing the judge about that. It seems so biased. Since yesterday when I read the news I feel bitter. Even worse, if you read the comments on the social media about this, at least half of Greek people think that the police was right to do that, and they ask for even harsher punishment for the "perpetrator". It doesn't matter if it's Christian Orthodox or Muslim anymore, have no doubt about that: Greece IS a muslim country within europe, just with a slightly different God. They are fanatics, and they are uneducated. Avoid us. I will try to do the same...

...They are afraid that some of the people in court might be reading slashdot, and saw yesterday's Ballmer ad, so they decided to abandon the case until this is forgotten. After all nobody wants to be laughed by a federal judge.