windows update

Windows Updates is a great feature of Microsoft operating systems that allows you to easily keep your system up to date and secure. In the previous installment of this article, I showed you how to configure Windows Updates through the Control Panel. In this article, I’ll show you alternate method to configuring Windows Update.
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As with previous versions of Windows, Windows 7 lets you control how and when updates are downloaded and installed on your computer. Using the Windows Update feature, you can choose whether updates are downloaded to your computer as well as whether updates are installed automatically. For example, updates for Windows 7 can be downloaded [...]

In Part I of Prevent Reboots after Windows Updates, you learned how to disable automatic reboots through the local Group Policy. Doing so prevents Windows Update from rebooting your computer after updates are installed.
If you are running Windows XP Home SP2, Windows Vista Home versions, or Windows 7 Home versions, you cannot disable automatic reboots [...]

Windows Update helps you to keep your computer up-to-date with the latest updates available from Microsoft. It is definitely a lifesaver for those of us who are not diligent in keeping our computers up-to-date with the latest fixes, patches, etc.
However, I have two peeves with Windows Update. First, the dialog box that constantly pops up [...]

Last Sunday, I invested a couple more hours into troubleshooting some nasty issues with Windows Update causing my machine to lose Internet connectivity. The first installment of the saga is here, and the second installment is here.
The outcome was actually pretty decent, although far from perfect. I now have a means by which I can [...]

Last Wednesday (6/11/2008), I wrote a post about my Windows Vista PC having some major issues after auto-installing a batch of updates from Microsoft’s Windows Update service. Essentially, after these updates installed and my PC restarted itself, it lost its Internet connectivity (while maintaining LAN connectivity overall, which is peculiar in and of itself).
Shortly afterwards, [...]

Maybe this will turn out to just be a unique situation — that I’m the only one encountering this phenomenon. But it’s a very frightening scenario: that a number of Windows Updates made to my Vista PC overnight last night (Tues, June 10) neutered the PC’s ability to connect to the Internet. I’ll be watching [...]