Re: Windows XP Updates installing automatically when option disabl

Shenan

You wrote:
'You are allowing them to download and notify you... Just have it NOTIFY you
and NOT download/install. Then you have more control and still have the
option of having something else remind you to check for updates.'

I thought the option that I have Windows XP set to IS to 'NOTIFY and NOT
download/install', but sometimes it just goes and downloads anyway, even
rebooting my machine to install when I have walked away from the machine for
5 minutes after chosing the option 'Don't install now' three or four times.

I know I didn't have to install E7. I did on one machine and deinstalled it,
then was careful to stop it being installed on my other machines, but I
understand it is going to be distributed via automatic update in September,
which is why I'm worried about it.

In any case shouldn't the option do what it 'says on the tin', ie. give me
the chance to review updates before installing. Installing updates on my
machine without me giving permission must surely be violating some sort of
law isn't it?



"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

Anothernetworknewbie wrote:
I have set my Windows XP Update option to only download updates
once I have reviewed the updates.

I have used Windows XP for 2/3 years now and generally consider the
experience disastrous. I have not had so many problems running my
own PC (hanging, crashing etc.) since the mid 1980s. I also
consider some of the updates a violation of my privacy and could
cause big problems with other software on my PC (eg. Explorer 7 is
not compatible with eBay's Turbolister 2 which I use extensively in
the on-line selling part of my business).

However, I often find Windows XP Updates install themselves
automatically anyway (and automatically reboot my machine at
inconvenient times too). I found 12 updates automatically installed
themselves on one of my machines yesterday when I logged off,
without me having any opportunity to review the updates being
installed. I just noticed that the same would have happened on one
of my machines if I had not noticed the option to 'Turn off'
without installation. I re-rentered my machine to see if I could
review the Updates and found I could not.

How I stop this? I have definitely set my Update options to allow
me to review Updates before installation, but it seems to ignore
this at times.

So - don't set it to automatically update at all.

If you want more control over what goes on your system (you did *not* have
to update to IE7 for example) then visit http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
periodically (at least the day after the second Tuesday of each month) and
scan for/install whatever updates you wish. There is nothing stating you
*have* to setup updates to automatically notify you, download or install.
You can - in Windows XP - turn that off and be responsible for it yourself.

What you have chosen is perhaps not the option for you. You are allowing
them to download and notify you... Just have it NOTIFY you and NOT
download/install. Then you have more control and still have the option of
having something else remind you to check for updates.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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