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

From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/12/04

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    Well you can choose. Type Automatic Updates in help and review the subject. 

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"Videot" <notathome@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message 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?
> 
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> Thanks in advance
> 
>
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