Re: windows update "view history"

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From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:52:10 -0600

Melanie;
You have Automatic Updates enabled and Microsoft is asking if you want
an update most likely Service Pack-2.
You should install SP-2

To turn off Automatic Update:
Right click My Computer
Click Properties
Click Automatic Update tab
Check appropriate box and click OK.

Also see:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spackins.htm 

-- 
Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
"melanie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:282401c4867e$bd5a4eb0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>I don't know what's going on with all the changes in
> windows update.In the last 2 weeks the look/formatt of
> the site has changed.So change can be good...but in my
> case absolutely not.
>
> Earlier this week I clicked on "view installation
> history" and it was all there.Yesterday and today it
> keeps telling me that I have no history of
> updates/downloads,which are 99% done
> automatically.Sometimes when I check a critical or other
> a few show up so I download them.
>
> I also don't understand why as of today every minute a
> warning pops up to click on for approval to download a
> microsoft this and that.All microsoft and this is in the
> windows update,windows xp update ,windows catalog
> update,etc...(all the same sites basically ,I know.)I
> just didn't want someone to tell me I am in the wrong
> newsgroup or I could be.I simply know I need help!!!
>
> I run windows xp home service pack 1(not 2 yet)IE6 and
> dialup if that helps.
>
> Please,I am pannicking! If anyone knows why this shows up
> this way and if all my past years of history to date of
> downloads/updates are really gone...I would be more than
> deeply grateful.

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