Re: Is this the way Windows Update is supposed to work?

From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_reply-to-newsgroup.invalid)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 03:30:37 -0500

Videot said in news:O218Dn$NEHA.1644@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:
> 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?

Configure it how you want it to behave: don't run, prompt before
download, prompt after download, or download and install without
intervention.

System applet in Control Panel. Guess which tab it is. 

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