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I don't know if this will help you much, Dave, but I'll let you know my setup. I've had the Search service disabled long ago in an effort to both speed up and secure my pc a little more. However, I do use the Search Dog. Is that the Companion? I forget it's name, but I think that's what you're asking. Anyway, in that configuration, that works for me. I used the lil doggy to help find the ntfs.sys files to swap out after the KB4056615 update.

They must have just updated it. 0.0.6591.3 is out now. It still works the same and I didn't have any of the errors it was supposed to correct.

Thanks! This confirms that the XP updates resolved neither Spectre or Meltdown for me. And both my Win 10 machines are susceptible to Spectre.

That's the only problem I've seen. Is that the only problem? That I don't know. I'd bet you're right, but I'm going to error on the side of caution for now...even though I'm mixing KB's to do it.

Those were my only format option too from XP. I formatted on my Win 10 machine for testing. My concern was getting permissions errors in general when I had not gotten any with the older NTFS.SYS.

It sounds like your test is what dencorso's PC failed so you may be in luck. But if you do get a USB handy, I'd be interested to hear how that goes too.

The main test to try IMO is copying a file too the USB stick. That's when I got the error. However, I did not try any copies from network shares. I'm not sure of what results I'd have gotten. I suppose you could try going the other way and copying files to the NTFS volume on your Win 7 machine.

You could get in Disk Manager and check or just right click on the drive in Explorer and Format from your WIndows 8 or newer PC and choose NTFS. I'm not sure if you get the NTFS option on USB sticks in XP, but you could check that first if that's what you have. Anyway, then you can do your copy checks.

LOL, that's an intelligent question. And the answer is I would have had I have been able to find it.

Thanks! I actually found the 5.1.2600.5782 driver. The link below is what I used if anyone else is looking for it. My virus scanners found it clean and multiple websites I checked said they are reliable. It installed as you would expect a KB to install. http://thehotfixshare.net/board/index.php?autocom=downloads&showfile=10273

Dave and Glnz, try testing with a USB stick with an NTFS format.

Thanks! I did get it working prior to see your suggestion with the ntfs.sys from the \cache folder. After I saw your post I tried your link, but it looks like good ole webarchive may have lost the actual file. Never goes beyond "Accepting" the terms for the download. I figured it would be good to have as a backup until/when a good update becomes available. That said, my older version seems to have stopped those Security problems when copying.

I've done a little more checking. Something is up with my NTFS as well. Dave you may want to double check some usb sticks. I tried copying files to the drive and got some "Security ID" errors and could not complete. Is there a backup of my NTFS driver already on my PC I could use? I have a Linux partition on it I could do the copy from. It looks like I have an NTFS in my cache folder as 5.1.2600.5512. Is that desirable or is there a newer version I should use? Atari88XL says he's got 5.1.2600.5782.

I may have gotten some of Dave's luck from across the pond. Mine's NTFS as well and I've not had any problems with any of my apps or copying/deleting files. I'll have to experiment some more to see if something shakes loose, but on the periphery the update seems fine even though I forced it.Got it!

LOL, that certainly explains it. I'm a goof!

So after my PC successfully found on its own the 3 .Net Updates, and the 2 processor related updates this month (I had to force through the #615kb) I decided to let the machine run some more. After about 3 days it found the above mentioned KB's on it's own from the MU. I wonder why it missed them the first time around?

Thanks for reading the fine print!

I am the LAST person you should take advice from in these matters, so beware of that. I will say that I had just one update that would never install. That's aside from the kernel patch. I used the overwriteoem switch on both and they installed and never showed up again after a scan for new updates was run.

I'd say you've reached the point of turning off that Auto Update feature. Heinoganda's mentioned that to me a few months back and I haven't had issues since aside from manually having to run Microsoft Update from IE8. The Auto feature is a nice convenience when it works...but those days have gone. Maybe one day we'll get a 3rd party Updater similar to the ones I've mentioned above, but for my foreseeable future it'll just be manually downloading from the catalog and installing. It's not really that huge a hassle and it puts an end to your high CPU usage.

Thanks for posting!

That is a pretty complete list. Where did you find it? I thought I was home free with my FSB processor, but it is on the list.

I've followed this advice too as it seems to be the best answer for a frustrating issue. I do wonder however if we could get one of the Update utilities out there adapted to our systems? For instance, Win 10 has wumt_x64 and I've seen Get WSUS Content .NET 2.8.0.1 a 32 bit utility that does not appear to have an option for XP Embedded. Here's the link to the 32 Bit Utility. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/get_wsus_content_net.html

Niko32, have you double checked your kernel files? My PC that also has an FSB processor appeared to install fine, but I later learned that my kernel files weren't overwritten. Check your Windws\System32 directory for NTKRNLPA.EXE & NTOSKRNL.EXE with 12/5/17 install dates. In my case I used the installation switch mentioned earlier in this thread to force the install and it worked well for me. You may want to exercise caution though before you go forward with that as some have had issues with the newer kernel.

I got tired of waiting for MU. I waited a respectful 8 hours out of courtesy for it to do it's thing and I lost patience. Anyway, I manually installed the 3 .Net updates and nothing else. The first 2 took about 5 or so minutes each. The last one took probably about 20 minutes, but no problems to report and it rebooted fine.

Thanks for the head-up, Bersaglio.