"HistoryFan" <NoSpam!@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks. Lets say I tell Microsoft Update to download the critical
> files. After this is done, it may ask me to restart my computer. If I
> click no, that won't hurt anything, will it? Sometimes a family member or
> myself might be busy doing something and not want to immediately restart
our
> computer. We might want to wait hours before doing so. Is that okay?
You ideally should reboot a system as soon as an upgrade that requires one
is finished - in only a small number of cases will you seen any problem if
you delay the reboot until later.
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"HistoryFan" <NoSpam!@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks. Lets say I tell Microsoft Update to download the critical
> files. After this is done, it may ask me to restart my computer. If I
> click no, that won't hurt anything, will it? Sometimes a family member or
> myself might be busy doing something and not want to immediately restart
our
> computer. We might want to wait hours before doing so. Is that okay?
>
> "Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > "HistoryFan" <NoSpam!@nospam.com> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I'm using XP Home SP1. Just a few minutes ago, I turned on the
> > > Automatic Update feature for the first time. I got tired of manually
> > > checking. The program will notify me when there are updates to
> download.
> > > Question: will Automatic Update only notify me of critical
> > updates/patches?
> > > For example, if I go to Windows Update now, it lists a video driver I
> can
> > > download, but I'm not interested in that.
> >
> > Yes - the automatic update will deal with critical and security patches,
> it
> > will not deal with additional components (.NET Framework, Movie Maker 2
> > etc ) or drivers.
> > These will download in the background and when available you will get a
> > popup to notify you - you can choose to install them then or later.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mike
> > --
> > Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]
> >
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> > rights
> >
> > Please note I cannot respond to e-mailed questions, please use these
> > newsgroups
> >
> > "HistoryFan" <NoSpam!@nospam.com> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I'm using XP Home SP1. Just a few minutes ago, I turned on the
> > > Automatic Update feature for the first time. I got tired of manually
> > > checking. The program will notify me when there are updates to
> download.
> > > Question: will Automatic Update only notify me of critical
> > updates/patches?
> > > For example, if I go to Windows Update now, it lists a video driver I
> can
> > > download, but I'm not interested in that.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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