#Windows xp service pack 4 update
#Windows xp service pack 4 upgrade

#Windows xp service pack 4 update

Update of the Windows Firewall: automatically activated by default, this improved firewall helps you protect Windows XP from viruses, worms and other threats from the Internet.

Windows Security Center: allows you to verify very simply and to manage in a centralized way the parameters of your computer security.

Update of the confidentiality in Outlook Express: allows to reduce electronic messages by limiting the risk of seeing your e-mail address validated by spammers.

Update of Windows Messenger: offers supplementary functions of security intended to help you to protect the confidentiality of your on-line personal data.

Administrator of enclosed documents: analyses and deactivates the non reliable enclosed documents, which may contain viruses from Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and Windows Messenger.

Administrator of additional modules of Internet Explorer: improves the security and reduces the risks of incidents by allowing you to manage easily a list of additional modules in Internet Explorer (Programs which were added to your web browser).

Update of the security parameters of Internet Explorer: helps you to protect the confidentiality of your personal data by modifying the default parameters in order to secure the computers in your firm.

Information bar of Internet Explorer: allows you to remain better informed about the events while you surf on the Web, therefore you remain informed of the various situations and can overcome any potential problems of security.

Analysis of the downloads in Internet Explorer: warns you in case of potentially dangerous downloads and allows you to block the unwanted programs.

Blocker of inconvenient pop-ups in Internet Explorer: allows to surf on the Internet more serenely by reducing the interruptions due to the contents and the unwanted advertisements.

Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), the service pack for Windows XP, concentrates on the relative improvement to the security and is one of the most important Service Pack ever published. Services Packs constitute a practical means, everything in one, to reach the last drivers, the tools and the improvement in security as well as the other critical updates.

#Windows xp service pack 4 upgrade

It is recommended that you upgrade to a more recent version of Windows. Windows XP is no longer provided with security updates since then.

Disclaimer: Support for Windows XP was discontinued on 8 April 2014.