AlanHo Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 My computer running XP home is quite definitely set to automatically download and install Windows critical and security updates at 8.0 am every day. I have double checked this.I sometimes get a flag pop up fom the taskbar to tell me Windows is being updated - but cannot recall seeing one for a week or two.I therefore went onto the MS Update site at 9.30 this morning and checked - to find that there were 7 critical updates required. I wonder how this can be - the computer should theoretically have checked for itself 90 minutes ago - or yesterday - or the day before etc.See screen shot of the downloads required - can anyone offer an explanation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Something was strange about today's updates. I had the yellow auto-update icon waiting in the systray this morning. I clicked it and told it to proceed with the downloads. The icon disappeared ... and never came back.After lunch I ran http://update.microsoft.com/ - that downloaded and installed the updates.Not sure if this could be caused by a congestion at the Microsoft update servers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted April 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 To add to my concerns - it so hapeens that yesterday I ran the MS Baseline Security Analyser which reported one update missing - which I downloaded. Is it possible that Microsoft have issued a further 7 updates all at once and after 8.0 am this morning ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted April 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 And another thing. I have just been playing on the update site to check through my history of downloads etc when I decided to read through the FAQ section.I saw a reference that it was necessary to add MS Update to my list of trusted websites - which I set out to do by copying and pasting the URL they giveHowever - I then get an error message that the URL must be prefixed by https and not just http.What is all this about - surely Microsoft would not have such an error on their website ?see screen shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Something was strange about today's updates. I had the yellow auto-update icon waiting in the systray this morning. I clicked it and told it to proceed with the downloads. The icon disappeared ... and never came back.After lunch I ran http://update.microsoft.com/ - that downloaded and installed the updates.Not sure if this could be caused by a congestion at the Microsoft update servers?I had a similar problem - but when I went back to the update site about five mins later it all worked ok. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 However - I then get an error message that the URL must be prefixed by https and not just http.I'm surprised that they have not always used https for security updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I prefer to get a warning about updates, and download and install when I want to. There were six for me this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 How many updates are there, AlanHo has seven andsome six and I've got five, presumably all XP SP2 systems, what gives ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 How many updates are there, AlanHo has seven andsome six and I've got five, presumably all XP SP2 systems, what gives ?I had 7. I downloaded them but generally if I wait a short while they come along via the automatic update feature.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I think MS ration the distribution of updates to prevent congestion of their servers - that's why some people get them later than others.Regarding the number of updates, this machine had eight this morning, my other two had five. The MS differences between the machines is that this one has Office XP installed (the others have OpenOffice). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I had six. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I always get mine a few days late :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I had six. :)I had to read that twice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 This is the information that was on CoU yesterday regarding the security updates click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 I had six. :)I had to read that twice TUT!!! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 And another thing. I have just been playing on the update site to check through my history of downloads etc when I decided to read through the FAQ section.I saw a reference that it was necessary to add MS Update to my list of trusted websites - which I set out to do by copying and pasting the URL they giveHowever - I then get an error message that the URL must be prefixed by https and not just http.What is all this about - surely Microsoft would not have such an error on their website ?see screen shotThe s in https stands for secure Alan, if you didn't know that already. Like you I had been flagged last night to say that there were updates available, then nothing happened. Again when I turned on tonight at about 18:30 the same thing happened, auto update flagged me again to indicate updates were available but up to now nothing has downloaded. I'm giving it till midnight to decide what it wants to do, if nothing happens by then I will be doing a manual download I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Never seam to get mine automatically usually manually download :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 I had 6 Windows XP updates, and 1 Office 2003. I also installed the optional 904942 update, although I don't use OE, and I have no immediate plans for IE7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 I always get mine a few days late :DThey have a long way to travel to Spain. It depends what flights are available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 I prefer to get a warning about updates, and download and install when I want to.Same here.For some reason the automatic updates don't work for me either.I always get mine a few days late :DI don't as I usually manually download them as soon as they are released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Actually... auto updates don't seem to work for me either, my comp tells me there is an update but never downloads it, so I go to Windows Updates and do it manually too.I feel a reformat coming on... it's been about 18 months since the last one. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 I always get mine a few days late :DThey have a long way to travel to Spain. It depends what flights are available.10 times price rise on school holidays so they wont be flying till after Easter ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Finally got mine via Auto update at 20:35 tonight. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamb Chop Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 I got 4 on 14.4.06KB911567KB911562KB908531KB902812by auto - gt a yellow shield saying ready to download.After downloading - whole computer froze and I couldnt evn use the turn off on the towner to close down. Panic.After an hour tried again, still fozen but did turn off on the tower.Booted and it was okay. thankfully. :D I do visit and check as I have found others and downloaded manually just after an auto up date too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 Got 6 this morning ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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