Re: Win Update Alert - OK - Disappears til later

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Alias wrote:

I installed the WGA thing. I have nothing to fear.

You were lucky. The Internet is chock full of posts where WGA (both flavors) falsely accused them of piracy.

Sure, but that comprises only a very tiny fraction of all the computers where WGA was installed. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn't have a significantly higher failure rate than the average update.

Harry.



Alias

"Alias" wrote:

Gis Bun wrote:
And you can choose not to install it [and hide it] with a "custom" check.
Not that one, the Activex one. You are referring to WGA/N.

Alias
"Alias" wrote:

Gis Bun wrote:
You can always go to the Windows Update site and download the updates. No sense in putting off the security updates.
There's one good reason not to go to the Windows Update and that is that there is spyware waiting for you there in the form of WGA.

Alias
"Craig S" wrote:

Thank you. It's easier to live with something if you know there's no fix for various quirks.

"Alias" wrote:

Craig S wrote:
XP SP3 --- More than not Windows' Auto-Update Alert symbol appears in my System Tray, I clk OK to DnLoad, and then the Alert disappears til a later time - often when I've pursued Updates manually - which then conflicts with the original Update effort that seems to reappear.

Is this common and / or is their a fix for this? Thanks!
It's common and no fix has been made available that I know of. Having patience is the only thing that works. I'm waiting on the yellow shield to reappear as I type this ;-)

Alias

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