You comment about choosing the "Check for updates on system startup". I
haven't tried this yet. But won't that try checking for updates when the
computer boots/starts up? And if so, it sounds like LuDean won't be
connected to the internet right when the system boots up. And so it won't be
able to check for updates at system startup. Now I don't know if MS AS is
yet as smart at BITS 2.x that XP uses for downloading updates. And even then
I know that BITS 2 isn't perfect for dial up users either. But it's closer.
I don't know exactly how MS AS 1.0.509 Beta updater works on dial up only,
but I assume it doesn't detect the offline/online change. Because if it did,
then it seems that you should be able to pick daily with an early time of
2am and then if at 2am it's not connected, but at 12:31pm it is connected,
then it should detect the online status and that the dialy 2am update hasn't
occurred yet and do the update at the new online time. (hopefully that run
on sentence made sense.)
I don't use dial up anymore, but if I did, I would want to know that when I
do go online, that things like Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and other
protection is being checked/updated. Now if the downloads are going to
negatively affect dial-up performance for some of the large updates. (Like
some Windows updates) Then it could possibly ask you if you want to hold on
that download until you are done doing the important things you used Dial up
for in the first place. And then you could resume the download after you are
done surfing, but before you close your dial up connection.
My comments may also be considered a feature request as I don't think MS AS
updater works anything like I described.
"Sky King" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> LuDean wrote:
>> I am hoping that MS will provide an autoupdater feature that will be
>> able to check for updates more often. For instance, I have Norton's
>> Antivirus Netdetect feature set to check every thirty minutes to see
>> if I am online, and if so, download the latest sig files. MSAS's
>> autoupdater would never work for me because I am online for
>> relatively short periods at irregularly spaced intervals throughout
>> the day. I would never get an update unless I manually triggered the
>> update. Since I have a memory like swiss cheese, that of course,
>> would never happen.
>
> When you go offline, do you close down the system? If so, you can set the
> AutoUpdater to check for new items at startup.
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