They're broken. You are correct.

No, I haven't installed ME over itself. The patches show
as broken after installing Borderbund.

Do you know of the MS site that I can download the updates
Outside Of windows updates? These patches don't show as
being available for download there. I guess I could fish
through the registry and remove the keys you elude to (if
you tell me which they are) but I'd rather have the site
so that I can save it and avoid touching the registry.

Thanks for your help, Mike. It's much appreciated.

KB
-----Original Message-----
2. Review of Belarc shows two critical updates
disabled.

Disabled or broken? Have you at some time reinstalled
Win Me over itself?
If so then this would have broken several critical
updates and the patches
will need to be reinstalled even though a visit to the
Windows Update site
will not suggest that they are needed. The reason being
that the flag in
the registry showing the patch as being installed is
still present
following the Win Me reinstall.

Both the patches 323255 and 811630 are deemed critical
and I would
strongly advise you to reinstall both of these patches.
The easiest way
to do so would be for you to download them from the
Windows Update
Catalogue.
(http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.co...g/en/default.a
sp).
You will probably find 811630 as the first listed of the
critical updates
for Win Me with 323255 a bit over halfway down the list.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



KB wrote:

I've come across the following dilema. After
installing,
from purchased CD, Borderbund Click Arts I see a few
disturbing things.

1. Free AOL is added to desktop (ok, it's bundled
software and I can remove this).

2. Review of Belarc shows two critical updates
disabled.
UPD323255
UPD811630

I looked at the Microsoft pages that the
Belarc 'details'
link provides me with and don't get a definitive answer
as
to whether these updates are really necessary. I think
I
should system restore to re-enable the updates (I SR'd
the
last time Borderbund was installed a couple days ago but
another user re-installed it rather than wait for me to
do
it grr) but have a feeling they may not be needed.

My question is:
Do I still need these updates?
-Running IE 6.0
SP1,Q89293,Q837009,Q867282,Q891781,Q890923.

Appreciate any feedback.

KB

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