| I'm saving this message for reference. This sounds useful.

Just remember two things:

1) XP is no longer supported. Microsoft has no reason to make
sure patches for XPE work on XP, and they have made no such
commitment. They do have a motive to break XP. Unsupported
means that if it breaks it's your fault.

2) It's unlikely there will be many, if any, relevant patches
anyway. Something like support for new hardware would be
useful, but security patches? No one should be using IE8
anyway, so patches there are irrelevant. What else is there?
This months patches are a good example. Someone who
has been posting this hack in another group posted them.
One is for IE and 2 are for "privilege elevation" bugs. In other
words, they are bugs that allow someone logged on as a
restricted user to get full admin rights. I don't know anyone
who doesn't have all users set up as Admins on XP. Unless
you normally run in the restricted "lackey mode" of a common
user, and you have XP installed with an NTFS file system, then
privilege elevation is irrelevant.

So you could be risking your system for doubtful benefit.
On top of all that, if you use the hack you need to pick
and choose between updates. Some may not be relevant to
XP. Some, like WGA, might invalidate your hacked install.