Re: Windows Update

This article may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323166


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"V Green" wrote:
So, I haven't updated my laptop for years
(literally). I'm an MSDN member, so I got
SP's that way. I am already at SP4.

I just checked in with Windows Update, and, of course,
the Win Update stuff was out of date, so I let it update.

When I rebooted, the dreaded Automatic Update service
was turned back ON, so I quickly turned it OFF and
disabled it - Auto Update is a DISASTER - foisting off
things like WMP 11 as "critical" when it is not (not to
mention that WMP 11 is just a POS downgrade from
WMP 10 as well).

Of course, visiting the Windows Update site now results
in a 0x8DDD0018 error.

I am NOT gonna let Auto Update download stuff and THEN
ask me if I want it. No way. Don't try to talk me into it. I've
read far too many horror stories from other users about the
system bitching about "uninstalled updates" each and every reboot
even though it was instructed specifically not to ask again.
No patience for that kind of crap.

What I want is the OLD way things were - W. Update scans,
then presents me a list, I choose what I want, then those
updates are downloaded and installed.

If this is no longer possible, then I'll just freeze my system where
it is and no longer update anything from MS. Nothing has
malfunctioned for years, so I'll just blow them off forever.

Device driver updates I will continue to get from the hardware
mgfrs - most MS driver updates seem to render systems unbootable
or otherwise break your system so I've never gotten them from there anyway.

I have heard rumors of a enterprise support system - one that
allows non-idiots to download updates outside of the Windows
Update junk. Myth or fact?



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