or if ur too lazy 2 read the neowin topic basically the xpize updater isnt what it might sound... after visiting windows update and installin hotfixes your files will be modified, as such the changes xpize makes will be lost... but the xpize updater is made for that reason, it will check the system files, if resources have been made "old skool" windows 9x looking again then updater will sort em, and your new patches will still be there but with the nice new shiney xpized look in aswer 2 ur questions yes all patches will work and so will windows update and microsoft update