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

From: roger (sergiorogerdon'tspam_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/12/04


Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:07:52 -0500

Yes, these are legitimate updates, just had one today. You can click
on details and a window pop ups telling you what the patch does.

Good luck

On Wed, 12 May 2004 16:16:19 +0800, "Videot"
<notathome@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>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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