Is this the way Windows Update is supposed to work?

[Videot]

I was using our new laptop a few hours ago & I found it to be very slow &
sluggish & then I noticed that it appeared to be downloading something & I
was correct - they were Windows Updates. Once it finished, after about an
hour, (our connection speed is on 28kbs), up pops a window telling me that
new updates have been downloaded & asked if I wished to install them. This
seems a little backward way of doing things since if I said no apparently
all that had been downloaded would apparently be just thrown away. Is this
the way things are supposed to work? Why can't I be shown what the
downloads are for before I say yes?

 

[*Vanguard*]

Videot said in news:[email protected]:

I was using our new laptop a few hours ago & I found it to be very
slow & sluggish & then I noticed that it appeared to be downloading
something & I was correct - they were Windows Updates. Once it
finished, after about an hour, (our connection speed is on 28kbs),
up pops a window telling me that new updates have been downloaded &
asked if I wished to install them. This seems a little backward way
of doing things since if I said no apparently all that had been
downloaded would apparently be just thrown away. Is this the way
things are supposed to work? Why can't I be shown what the downloads
are for before I say yes?

Configure it how you want it to behave: don't run, prompt before
download, prompt after download, or download and install without
intervention.

System applet in Control Panel. Guess which tab it is.

 

[David Candy]

Well you can choose. Type Automatic Updates in help and review the subject.

 

[roger]

Yes, these are legitimate updates, just had one today. You can click
on details and a window pop ups telling you what the patch does.

Good luck