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No, there's not that key in registry, because I never installed it. But I did change manually permissions for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony and accordingly to it's subkeys (unchecked full control for Network Service users). So if that's all update KB982316 do, then I guess I'm good.

Thanks Mathwiz, and heinoganda for clarifications. So if I manually change permissions (remove full access for Network Service users) for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony and it's subfolders (subkeys) :), I don't really need to install this update?

Hm, I dont' have that file tapicust.dll in my Windows XP. Do You guys have it? It's only logical that I don't need it then, but I'm not entirely sure.

On topic of antiviruses, I've tried several at friends computer with XP and leaved it with same Microsoft Security Essentials version as Bersaglio, as it had the least impact on system. As for my XP, now XP POSready, antivirus induced unavoidable slowdown was a thing I couldn't accept. It's been without antivirus since 2009, and haven't had any problems. Of course, I consider myself quite experienced computer user, and using Firewall, Firefox heavily guarded with NoScript (default to block scripts), RequestPolicy Continued and what not. And sometimes using ClamWin or online Antivirus sites for suspicious downloaded files. I know it's probably vulnerable to some threats, but I'm usually not looking for them. I'm not advocating for not using antivirus programs, I just wanted to point that at most cases common sense is the best defense.

Thanks DAVE-H, You've encouraged me to install this update and everything went fine. I have a few programs that needs .NET 2 and they are all working as before. I was a little reluctant, because I've had a problem with this March .NET 4 update causing csrss.exe high CPU utilization while refusing to install a couple of times, forcing me to reboot, and then it suddenly made it through.

Has anyone tried that "preview Update for .NET Framework 2 sp2: NDP20SP2-KB3217127-x86.exe" yet? Are there any problems or consequences? Well I have known it as secretive major military industrial center back in the days of Soviet Union. And surely some american agencies definitly heard about it back then. Now it's apparently one of the most developed industrial and scientific regions in Russia.

This is the article from 2007 where it is debated about this. I guess MRT just didn't send any telemetry in period before August 10th 2016, or didn't report that it sent. By the way my log goes back to 2009, although I've been using XP since 2005, then still dual booting with win98, of course.

@heinoganda Thanks for clarifying that, it is logical, but one never knows.

There are 2 confusing things about this registry hack: 1. At my machine there is no MRT key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\. So do we have to create subkey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MRT and then do the rest: Entry name: \DontReportInfectionInformation Type: REG_DWORD Value data: 1 ...or do we need to put it in some other MRT key in registry (I think there are two of them)? 2. Is dword entry DontReportInfectionInformation or really \DontReportInfectionInformation with backslash? Another thing is puzzling... there are articles on internet how to disable this, even from 9 years ago. Has MRT been phoning home all that time?

That's not that case here, but I've done it anyway just to rule out that small possibility. Strange symptoms are that every first run of Cert_Updater.exe and press Yes, it just close itself, only on second run and press Yes, it opens previously mentioned command prompt window. And it's every time like that. I'll investigate more about it, when time allows, and post here. Any idea is welcome. Thanks

Today I've been a little lazy to manually update root and revoked certificates, so I've decided to try heinoganda's Cert_Updater.exe, and all I got is this message in command prompt: MODE is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or a batch file.Does anyone knows why is this happening?

Thanks for the heads-up! I usually check what updates are for, but sometimes I just have no time for that. Last time tcpip.sys was updated, I didn't notice until one day I've opened Event Viewer and it was plagued with Event ID: 4226.

Thanks for the download list! It would be more convenient if you could at least mark the newly added updates with asterisk or similar sign. It would surely save me some time, for now I always found myself painstakingly going through my list of installed updates, wandering do I have all of those updates from your list installed, or not.

Welcome jsc1973! I've been a member a long time, but just lurking around too. Anyway, you should check thread "POSReady 2009 updates ported to Windows XP SP3 ENU" and maybe ask "harkaz" about it, he's been patching updates recently.

Haha, me too, I didn't mean stuck in a bad way, well maybe a wrong expression anyway.

Well, it certainly appears, for us who are stuck with XP x86, things are not so gloomy after all. I suspected as long as they provide updates for other variants of XP, it will not be so hard to patch them to install on XP x86, and of course someone has already done that for all 4 critical updates.