Re: critical updates question/and related questions and problems w
- From: "TaurArian" <taurarianREMOVECAPS@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:44:04 +1100
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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
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"casey511" <casey511@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7D075DDF-E561-44E5-93CF-94089C1316E1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Thank you TaurArian!
|
| The link to get bulletins appears geared to it professionals.. and doesn't
| quite say will notify of critical updates though is ormay be contained.
| Perhaps that would be the one to subscribe to, but I'm not a tech
| professional, just a home user.. but i can handle tech bulletins :)
|
| And mainly looking for email notify from microsoft when patches are
| available and perhaps the link you gave me, which does notify of things
| contains that; it just doesn't note it..
|
| Thank you for writing..
| casey :)
|
| "TaurArian" wrote:
|
| > For current listing of updates -:
| > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx
| >
| > To get security bulletins -
| > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/notify.mspx
| >
| > Maybe worth reading this article -
| > Updates are not installed successfully from Windows Update, from Microsoft Update, or
by
| > using Automatic Updates after you repair a Windows XP installation
| > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943144
| >
| > HOW TO: Configure and Use Automatic Updates in Windows XP
| > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306525
| >
| > To check to see if hotfixes are installed -
| > From Microsoft - Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.
| > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsa2/default.mspx
| >
| > Finally -
| > Windows Update newsgroup:
| > (OE newsreader)
| > news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate
| > or
| > (Web)
| >
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windowsupdate&lang=en&cr=US
| >
| >
| > --
| >
| > TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2008 - Update Services
| > http://taurarian.mvps.org
| > ======================================
| > How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
| > Computer Maintenance: Acronis / Diskeeper / Paragon / Raxco
| >
| >
| > "casey511" <casey511@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| > news:B0F00BE7-3B78-4629-8382-E1AC1C733CA0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > | Hi, my preferences are set to notify and then I choose downloads.
| > |
| > | I've not recieved any notification for a long time. Can someone tell me
| > | when last critical update was? (am not concerned with office critical
| > | updates, will explain below.)
| > |
| > | Is there a newsletter which tells when critical updates are available. I
| > | did try to sign up for one, and was impossible, buggy i take it, didn't
| > | work..but if anyone knows of one, would love to know. It's impossible to
| > | find which newsletter or email notice informs of such..the whole world knows
| > | before i do when there's a critical update available.. and i cant find anyway
| > | to find out when.
| > |
| > | Using windows update at microsoft where they scan the computer I have a
| > | problem there as well, so not sure if am missing critical updates.
| > |
| > | Okay, here's the long story. I saw at one point update for office. (My
| > | preferences are set to notify but I'll download.)
| > |
| > | On installing, it first asked, update or install new version of outlook
| > | express? I thought sure, why not..
| > |
| > | Well, I have an old hotmail email..and as is old, is grandfathered in where
| > | can recieve and send via outlook. (any newer than that no longer allows
| > | such.) So, when outlook was installed, I could not enable hotmail (the one
| > | addy) to send recieve via outlook.
| > |
| > | So without that, didn't want outlook.. So I restored sys..ugh, which in
| > | itself is a problem, but it got rid of the new outlook.
| > |
| > | After restore, I screen shot all my settings in outlook which gave hotmail
| > | paramaters needed for mail settings. Which by the way was shown as an option
| > | with the updated outlook and I selected, but did not work..so basically if I
| > | have new outlook, I can not use that hotmail addy with it. (as again, while
| > | mine is grandfathered in, appears new outlook doesn't recognize is okay as
| > | does not allow me to configure it, or if i do, does not work.)
| > |
| > | So though, after getting the parameters again, (after the restore) I let it
| > | update again, let it install outlook again, and same problem, wouldn't accept
| > | the hotmail in outlook.. So again, restored..ugh again. to get rid of outlook.
| > |
| > | Due to this, me saying yes twice to update outlook, microsoft does not
| > | prompt if I want outlook updated, it thinks I do, as said twice before yes,
| > | so is set in some file on sys somewhere, and so on updating office auto
| > | updates to newer outlook, which you can see due to such, I can't update
| > | office at all. (As I dont want outlook updated due to not letting me use that
| > | hotmail thru it.)
| > |
| > | So, I keep getting prompted to update office 2003. I keep saying no. I
| > | remove the x, tell it not to ask again, and finally after 3 or so times of
| > | that, it stopped asking me.
| > |
| > | So, though am worried as not been getting any notification of any other
| > | critical updates for xp etc. So, I go to the update and let it scan my
| > | system. Now it runs like 5 minutes rather than 1, and gives message,
| > | something like you refused 2 criticals, remove the block or whatever.
| > |
| > | I'm not going to do that (as it's referring to the office updates.)
| > |
| > | So, I'm not sure if due to that, it's not showing me any criticals at all.
| > |
| > | My last updates were:
| > |
| > | IE 7 Feb 13, 08
| > |
| > | same date for xp
| > |
| > | So am concerned, as has been some time..
| > |
| > | Thanks for reading this long story and for your help and replies.
| > |
| > | I've no idea how to subscribe or change notifications if need to, etc.
| > |
| > | Take care,
| > | blessings,
| > | casey
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
| >
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