Is this the way Windows Update is supposed to work?

From: Videot (notathome_at_optusnet.com.au)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:16:19 +0800

I was using our new laptop a few hours ago & I found it to be very slow &
sluggish & then I noticed that it appeared to be downloading something & I
was correct - they were Windows Updates. Once it finished, after about an
hour, (our connection speed is on 28kbs), up pops a window telling me that
new updates have been downloaded & asked if I wished to install them. This
seems a little backward way of doing things since if I said no apparently
all that had been downloaded would apparently be just thrown away. Is this
the way things are supposed to work? Why can't I be shown what the
downloads are for before I say yes? 

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Thanks in advance

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