I have my computer set to notify when updates are available. Once I download
I would like to be able to install the updates and restart if necessary, but
I can't find a way to do that. After I download the updates, it doesn't ask
me if I want to install, and the shield icon indicating updates are available
to install often doesn't appear for at least couple of days after I download
the updates. The system clearly knows that the updates are there because in
the shutdown menu, one of the options is to install the updates and shutdown.
Since I'm often doing this using remote desktop though, I don't want to
shutdown. I want to install the updates and restart.

When the download is finished, Microsoft Update should prompt for either
Express or Custom install. If the status icon is missing, just browse to the
update site http://update.microsoft.com and take the custom scan/install
option. The download would already be queued and ready to be installed.

"OCnStiggs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:CF41CCAE-A575-4D9E-A3DF-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have my computer set to notify when updates are available. Once I
>download
> I would like to be able to install the updates and restart if necessary,
> but
> I can't find a way to do that. After I download the updates, it doesn't
> ask
> me if I want to install, and the shield icon indicating updates are
> available
> to install often doesn't appear for at least couple of days after I
> download
> the updates. The system clearly knows that the updates are there because
> in
> the shutdown menu, one of the options is to install the updates and
> shutdown.
> Since I'm often doing this using remote desktop though, I don't want to
> shutdown. I want to install the updates and restart.

With the Notify Only option enabled, you'll only see AU's "Updates are ready
to be installed" icon when all of the updates you've approved have
downloaded.

In such cases, you may encounter an "Install updates and turn off computer"
button when you go to shutdown. Using it will install the
already-downloaded updates but there's no way of knowing which updates
you're installing.

Absent any serious numerical Errors in your windowsupdate.log (cf.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902093), you may be seeing a delay caused by
excessive demand on the servers ("Update is not allowed to download due to
regulation"). It can take up to 7 days or more (sometimes much more) for
all Automatic Update users to get new updates when so many have been
released on the second Tuesday of a given month. See...

Updates are not downloaded or the “Automatic Updates” icon does not display
the status of downloads when you enable the Automatic Updates service:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/910340

You can install the updates via Windows/Microsoft Update website (WinXP) or
by running Windows Update manually (Vista) instead: Understand that by doing
so, you're pushing all other Automatic Updates users further back in the
queue (which may explain, at least in part, why Automatic Updates hasn't
brought them in for you yet).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


OCnStiggs wrote:
> I have my computer set to notify when updates are available. Once I
> download I would like to be able to install the updates and restart if
> necessary, but I can't find a way to do that. After I download the
> updates, it doesn't ask me if I want to install, and the shield icon
> indicating updates are available to install often doesn't appear for at
> least couple of days after I download the updates. The system clearly
> knows that the updates are there because in the shutdown menu, one of the
> options is to install the updates and shutdown. Since I'm often doing this
> using remote desktop though, I don't want to shutdown. I want to install
> the updates and restart.

CONTROL PANEL, SECURITY CENTER, AUTOMATIC UPDATES

Now select download updates for me but let me choose when to install

when you get a prompt that updates are downloaded and ready to install,
click on the yellow icon and select custom. This should allow you to install
only those patches you want to install.

Personally, I have come to the conclusion that patches these days are for a
specific purpose to help the authorities track down people with ill motives.
They don't add any further security to windows system. They do, however,
slow down the system over time!!

I have not installed any patches since SP3 and my system is still 100%
secure and still as fast as it was in 2001!!!



"OCnStiggs" wrote:

> I have my computer set to notify when updates are available. Once I download
> I would like to be able to install the updates and restart if necessary, but
> I can't find a way to do that. After I download the updates, it doesn't ask
> me if I want to install, and the shield icon indicating updates are available
> to install often doesn't appear for at least couple of days after I download
> the updates. The system clearly knows that the updates are there because in
> the shutdown menu, one of the options is to install the updates and shutdown.
> Since I'm often doing this using remote desktop though, I don't want to
> shutdown. I want to install the updates and restart.

<pft> What are you smoking, d00d?

ANONYMOUS wrote:
<snip>
> Personally, I have come to the conclusion that patches these days are for
> a
> specific purpose to help the authorities track down people with ill
> motives.
> They don't add any further security to windows system. They do, however,
> slow down the system over time!!
>
> I have not installed any patches since SP3 and my system is still 100%
> secure and still as fast as it was in 2001!!!