Is your Windows XP computer booting slowly?

Windows XP computers with autoupdate enabled are taking longer and longer to boot. Microsoft has discovered a flaw in Windows Update that is slowing down the update process. As the list of available patches for Windows XP has grown over the years, the delays have increased exponentially. Microsoft tried to fix this flaw with recent updates to little effect. Ars Technica has more.

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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