Bringing new NT4 installation up to snuff

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From: jbrock@panix.com (John Brock)
Date: 29 Jan 2003 20:54:25 -0500

I recently installed NT 4.0 Workstation and SP6A on an old 486DX100
(64MB + 256K L2 cache, which seems to help up a lot). I'm currently
exploring Microsoft's web site, but I'm unfamiliar with the MS way
of doing things, and I'm hoping for a little advice from the experts
about the best way to update my installation with the most recent
fixes. Here are some questions (and note that I am as interested
in the general update process as in specific answers):

I am mainly interested in updating the base OS and Internet Explorer
(I am not installing Outlook). Are there one or two files which
will bring each up to date, or am I going to have to spend time
searching out a zillion unrelated fixes?

Applying SP6A installed Internet Explorer 5.00. All of the security
updates I see are for IE 5.01 or higher, so I am assuming that I
have to download a complete new copy of IE, rather than just patching
IE 5.00. Right?

So which version should I download: 5.01, 5.5, or 6.0? Remember
my PC is slow, and I am not real interested in flashy bells and
whistles -- I want to keep things simple and avoid cluttering my
machine with corporate tie-ins (no MSN!). I am leaning towards IE
5.5, which is what I use at work, but if IE 6.0 isn't bloated and
baroque maybe I should go for that. Any guidance?

To actually do the update it appears I should download and apply
one of the following files:

        Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 2
        9/25/2002

        Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2
        7/31/2001

        Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (Includes Internet Explorer 6)
        9/9/2002

And then apply the following fix:

        Q324929 December, 2002 Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer
        12/6/2002

This particular file, q324929.exe, appears in several different
places in the search, and it appears that it is a cumulative update
for *all* versions of IE. Is this correct? Is this a property of
all cumulative IE patches?

If I install a new IE does the old version automatically go away,
or does it hang around taking up space? If so what should I do to
recover the space? I don't need two MS browsers on my machine.

For updating the base OS I found:

        Windows NT4 Security Rollup Package
        7/23/2001

This isn't very recent. Are there any more recent cumulative
security updates for NT4? And it took quite a bit of searching to
find this. Is there any way for a given product to go straight to
the most recent cumulative patch?

Does the order in which I apply the fixes (bases OS and IE) matter?

Is there anything else I should be downloading? For example, while
this is emphatically not a multi-media machine maybe I should get
the latest version of Windows Media Player anyway. (The latest
version for NT4 seems to be 6.4, and it says a Pentium 166 is
required. That won't stop the install will it?).

Any thoughts on any of these questions would be most welcome!

-- 
John Brock
jbrock@panix.com

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