Hey Osiris, are you saying that you need to have IE7 installed for some/all the newer updates to install correctly? Because a little over a day ago I installed two XP updates and after the install I couldn't do anything related to the internet, even though my computer recognized my connection. I couldn't figure out why this was happening until about five minutes ago I decided to remov the updates and after a restart everything went back to normal. I don't have IE7 installed.