Has M/S changed its way of handling updates?

14 years ago

I ask because, although I now have a check mark beside "Notify me, but don't automatically download or install them (updates)," this morning I received a notice containing many updates, left them all checked, clicked to accept them, and then nothing happened, except that the notification box disappeared. I am pretty sure that it said that updates with NO check mark would NOT be downloaded. Am I remembering it wrong? I'm thinking I must have, because the expected box saying I could continue working while the updating process was going on never appeared, nor did the notification to restart my computer.

Yet, when I went to ControlPanel>System>AutomaticUpdates again and chose to download previous updates I had missed (or rejected), the ones I had just been offered did not appear. Instead, I was notified about two others. When I accepted them, again, nothing happened except for the box disappearing.

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zep516
14 years ago
Reboot the computer see if they install.
maime
14 years ago
I downloaded those and I had to reboot a couple of times to get them all. It would not do them all at one time.
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biwako_of_abi
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks.

I did reboot, twice, but haven't seen a sign of anything being installed. Unfortunately, I didn't make note of the names of the programs in the update, so I can't check Add/Remove to see if they are there. But wouldn't there be some sort of notice that they are being downloaded and then installed?
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
14 years ago
go to the actual windows update site and let it scan your pc select the custom option so you can see each one it lists, then over on the left is the option to see your downloaded history you can see all that you have downloaded and installed from there.

start> all programs> windows update at the top
grandms
14 years ago
Agree with RC. If there are more than a couple, and this time there were a whole bunch, mine does the same thing, so I find it easier to just go to Microsoft Update page and get them there. With as many as there were this time, I just did half of them, rebooted, and then did the other half.
biwako_of_abi
Original Author
14 years ago
Well, that suggestion about the Microsoft Update page sounded good, but now I am more confused. The following are listed as high-priority updates for me:

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update for .NET versions 2.0 through 3.5 (KB951847) x86
Download size: 69.2 MB , 22 minutes
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a full cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and includes cumulative servicing updates to the .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 subcomponents. The .NET Framework 3.5 Family Update provides important application compatibility updates. This combined Service Pack and update is applicable to .NET versions 2.0 through 3.5. Details...

Update for Windows XP (KB967715)
Download size: 0 KB , 0 minutes (Downloaded; ready to install)
Install this update to resolve an issue in which AutoRun features were not correctly disabled. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Details...

Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Download size: 35.6 MB , 11 minutes
Service Pack 2 provides the latest updates to the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack. Details...

According to Add/Remove, I already have SP3 installed (though there is no mention of when that was done), so why would I need SP1 and/or SP2? Not only that, but the middle one in the above list, KB967715, is in Add/Remove as already installed on my computer, and so is SP1.

So who's crazy here? Maybe I am going to be! Should I just go ahead and tell them all to be installed?
grandms
14 years ago
The SP1, SP2, and SP3 referenced on the update page deal with the .NET Framework applications. The SP3 that you already have is the XP SP3. Go ahead and get them all, but suggest you not try to do them all at once.
maime
14 years ago
If they didn't download and install you will get another notice and they will still be in the update.
DA_Mccoy
14 years ago
I have never supported the idea of automatic updating. Being on an antique DUN I have to update manually, but at a minimum the system should be set to approve installation.

I do support the discipline of installing only two or three updates at a time, particularly those dedicated to the O/S and requiring a reboot. The idea of all the new code, removed code and the flotsam created opens too many potential pitfalls. I have seen way too many post-installation concerns after a carte blanche installation.

DA
tumblenweed
14 years ago
"Update for Windows XP (KB967715) Download size: 0 KB , 0 minutes"

Can anyone explain this> size: 0 KB, 0 minutes? What/why it happens. I have had this happen to me before. When it does I go to MS site and install it from there.
bbbluz ~ DonnaB
14 years ago
I have noticed a change in how the updates show up on my screen. In my windows update,I now have an area to the right of the updates that describes the update if you click and highlight any given update available!!! Hm!!! Has anyone else noticed this change?

tumblenweed,
I found information on the (KB967715) update. But, no answer to as why the Download size: 0 KB , 0 minutes, which also shows up concerning other updates as well. I have never come across this before myself...yet. I am quite curious as well!!! Must be an XP thing. I have Vista.
bbbluz

Here is a link that might be useful: How to disable autorun functionality in Windows

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