Re: windows updates

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After a clean install of Windows, Windows Update will be your default update source. When you go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and click "Upgrade to Microsoft Update," that's when the "muweb control" (ActiveX Control) is installed.

If there are no Windows Live applications installed, Microsoft Update will not offer any Windows Live updates.

If MS Office isn't installed, Microsoft Update will not offer any Office updates.

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What are the differences between Windows Updates, Automatic Updates, and Microsoft Updates?

While Windows Update provides you with updates specifically for Windows, Microsoft Update expands the service to download and install updates for other Microsoft software, such as Microsoft Office and Windows Live. Automatic updating is a feature that allows you to set your PC to automatically download and install updates using either service, making it easy and convenient for you to keep your Windows PC current.
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Source: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/windowsupdate/FAQ.mspx

=> To switch from Microsoft Update back to Windows Update as your default update source, go to Microsoft Update website | Click on 'Change Settings' in left pane | Scroll to bottom of page | 'To Stop Using Microsoft Update' | 'Disable Microsoft Update software and let me use Windows Update only' (check/select).

With Windows Update as your default, you will need to check-in at Office Update to keep your Office applications fully patched: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/maincatalog.aspx

NB: Microsoft will be discontinuing the Office Update option on 01 August 2009. After that, you will have to use Microsoft Update as your default update source in order to be offered any updates for Office.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Rage Skywolfe wrote:
how do you make it a default when you are first downloading updates. it is
microsoft now because the muweb control was installed. and normaly right
after that control is installed it offers the live updates it just didn't
this time.

Unless you change your default update source to Microsoft Update, no
Windows Live or MS Office updates will be offered by Automatic Updates or
when you update manually via Windows Update website.

After making Microsoft Update your default, Windows Live and MS Office
updates will be offered by Automatic Updates and when you update manually
via Microsoft Update website.


Rage Skywolfe wrote:
when I am first doing the updates until the prompt comes up to install
microsoft update it is windows update.

When you open your browser to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com, are you
taken to Windows Update or Microsoft Update? (Windows Live stuff's only
offered at Microsoft Update.)

Rage Skywolfe wrote:
several months ago on one reformat 35 updates for sp3 were released..
that
was before they had the live essentials updates comming through. lately
it
has been 36 with the windows live essentials updates released as well.
on
my
last one it went back to 35 is there a reason it has changed from even a
few
days ago to now? just curious here.

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