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Rats! MS Auto Updates Got Me Again!
CleverCat:
Mine ask to download - I say yes and then POOF - they only come back ready to install the next day?
Shook:
On this installation of Vista, I've had zero problems with the updates.
As a matter of fact, they only made it all better! :) (Fixing some compatibility issues and such)
Previously, however, I have had some problems... Mainly Vista simply
being completely unable to apply some of the updates, sometimes
resulting in numerous consecutive reboots. And when it finally finished
all the rebooting, a little message said "The updates couldn't be applied",
or something along the lines of that. I ended up disabling it altogether.
Then Vista somehow screwed up, forcing me through a long and painful
re-installation process... But ever since, I've had no problems with the updater.
I did disable the automatic installation though, it's really frackin annoying
when the PC reboots without warning while you're doing something >_>
Never had it cut off my internet though.
Darwin:
Re-reading Josh`s post (thanks for the lotto numbers, BTW!), I guess that`s been more or less my experience as well: Windows updates by themselves have never hurt my computer (that I can recall). What has hurt my computer have been conflicts with 3rd party stuff. It`s no problem now, I simply vet all updates before they are installed and never update 3rd party hardware drivers via Windows update. These are always optional, anyway.
Josh:
Someone write this day down, someone agrees with me. This never happens!
Paul Keith:
That's why I just turn updates off and rely on Autopatcher.
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