Installing Access 2003 runtime with SP3 and hotfix part 2
You will likely wish to install the Office 2003 security patches subsequent to SP3 into your runtime using the same techniques as for the hotfix as mentioned in the above document. While in a test operating system in Virtual PC I ran Microsoft Update and found these extra fixes. They only added about 20 Kb to the runtime file after SP3 was installed however, using Microsoft Update and the overhead per update it would've been about one Mb per fix. Painful on dialup. Also I feel it's much more professional to have things neat and tidy.
However Microsoft Updates still wants to download the security patches. Which I thought was quite interesting. I'm still going to apply the security patches so there is no vulnerability until the next time the updates are downloaded and installed. While the chances are small there could be a problem I'm not willing to risk it. Also if the user is on dialup it could take a considerable length of time before three or five megabytes worth of updates trickle down to the PC.