Right-click the Start button and select the Explore command.If you admire the simplicity of the Category View but prefer the Classic View, you may want to create your own custom Control Panel that combines the best of both views. If you’re an old-school Windows user, you can still switch back to the Classic View, in which all of the Control Panel’s tools are available. To simplify access to the tools in Windows XP’s Control Panel, Microsoft created the Category View, in which the Control Panel’s tools are organized into categories. Since the updated files are being directly overwritten on the CD, this pack has the minimum possible amount of overhead associated with integrating hotfixes in comparison to other methods-both in space used on the CD and in Windows installation time.' Security Catalogs necessary for Windows File Protection to recognize the updated files as digitally signed are installed, once again ensuring maximum transparency to Windows. He also says: 'All necessary registry entries needed by Windows Update, QFECheck, and Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer are imported during Windows setup, meaning that the integration is transparent to Windows. It accomplishes this task via direct integration, where files on the CD are directly overwritten by the updated files'. As Ryan says on his Web site, his update pack and Integrator software are 'designed to bring a Windows XP CD with SP2 integrated fully up to date with all of the latest hotfixes released by Microsoft since SP2's release.

Now we're ready to integrate most of the post-SP2 updates, thanks to a guy called Ryan VanderMeulen.

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