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Correct! Microsoft supposedly wanted the website gone from public access last year on April 27. But it seems they have kept the website, maybe for companies with custom support agreements for XP.

WUMT is not a neccesary component. It is simply provided as a more convenient method of troubleshooting. If you configure the automatic updates setting (to anything other than "don't check") in control panel, you will get update notifications in your system tray/shutdown menu. I in fact recommend that one does not use wumt for normal usage, as it can be confusing for some and does not accomplish anything that the usual tray icon does not.

Besides Notepad++ (which is great), Micro$oft's Wordpad, which comes with WinXP, works just fine. I use it all the time for these install.rdf fixes. Notepad will work too, but if the install.rdf has only LFs (not CR+LFs), then the lines of text will all be smushed together, making it very challenging to edit! Wordpad handles text files with only LFs much better. BTW, here's a trick I use: install 7-Zip, set up Wordpad (or Notepad++) as 7-Zip's default text editor, then use the "Open With" dialog to associate .xpi files with 7-Zip. Now you can open them by simply double-clicking, edit the install.rdf by clicking it and pressing F4, and when you close Wordpad and save your changes, 7-Zip will prompt you to update the install.rdf file inside your .xpi file automatically - no more need to extract, zip back up, and rename! Great time-saver.