Re: Windows Automatic Update

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Janet,
I'm still going to look further into this, but just to say that
what is meant by "command-line" .

It is very simply the [any] text that you type into either the "Run" box
or into a 'Command Prompt' (dos-box) window and press [ENTER] to start a
program, service, call a function or begin any Window's process.

This is EXACTLY the same as the text you type into the "Target" box of a
shortcut.

Indeed, in past versions of Windows OS, the "Target" box of a shortcut
WAS labelled "Commandline"

Hope this helps...

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Cheers, Tim Med***, Peckham, London. :-)




"Janetb" <Janetb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Many thanks for your help....See my comments below interspersed with
your text:

"Tim Med***" wrote:

Janet,
I was well aware of what you kept on asking, a way to start the
Update
Search (i.e. so that the little yellow icon is in the system tray
showing that it's looking for any updates) from the command line
(i.e.
so that you can create a shortcut to instigate it "at will").

Yes, but I do hope to be able to do it from shortcut icon(s) on the
desktop,
as I do not know how to use command lines...Also, it's quicker
...:-)....

Or, the other thing you were wanting, is if this process could be
automatically started when the PC was idle for a time.
However, I repeat; there's no [native] way to do any of this in
Windows
XP (that I know of at least).

I guess I was hoping SOMEONE out there might know of a way to do this
unconventional thing ...:-)....I have discovered amazing tricks that
people
have come up with to do very helpful things...!

ALL you can do is set updates to do it's search on a specified day
(or
every day) and at a specified time.

OR you can have 'Automatic Updates' turned off AND Updates alert you
so
that you can manually install them, or just alert you, or turn it off
completely.

When you say "Updates alert", do you mean the third option in the
Automatic
Updates settings options window (= "Notify me but don't automatically
download or install them") or were you referring to somewhere else? I
ask
because you canNOT choose this option AND "Turn off Automatic Updates"
as you
seem to suggest--you can only choose one or the other.....In any case,
we
seem to understand each other ...:-)....

But I am looking into this further, as I too enjoy having more
control
over what Windows does and am convinced that I can find out how to
start
the background search for updates from the command-line.

I'll get back to you as soon as I can when I find out about this...


Like I said, I am totally ignorant regarding command lines ...:-(....I
assumed that initiating the update search was a matter of simply
activating
relevant .exe's (??), which one can always do by shortcut....Looking
forward
to hearing from you!

Janet





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