What makes you think it will be any clearer this time around? You're
not
telling her what she *wants* to hear, so reality doesn't count.
: Let me try to make this clear, so you will finally understand:
Windows
: XP does not have native functionality to schedule anything
associated
: with Windows Update 'when the computer is idle'.
: ---
: Leonard Grey
: Errare humanum est
:
: Janetb wrote:
: > Many thanks for your help....See my comments below interspersed
with
your text:
: >
: > "Tim Meddick" wrote:
: >
: >> Janet,
: >> I was well aware of what you kept on asking, a way to start the
: >> Update
: >> Search (i.e. so that the little yellow icon is in the system tray
: >> showing that it's looking for any updates) from the command line
(i.e.
: >> so that you can create a shortcut to instigate it "at will").
: >
: > Yes, but I do hope to be able to do it from shortcut icon(s) on
the
desktop,
: > as I do not know how to use command lines...Also, it's quicker
...
....
: >
: >> Or, the other thing you were wanting, is if this process could be
: >> automatically started when the PC was idle for a time.
: > > However, I repeat; there's no [native] way to do any of this in
Windows
: >> XP (that I know of at least).
: >
: > I guess I was hoping SOMEONE out there might know of a way to do
this
: > unconventional thing ...
....I have discovered amazing tricks
that
people
: > have come up with to do very helpful things...!
: >
: >> ALL you can do is set updates to do it's search on a specified
day (or
: >> every day) and at a specified time.
: >>
: >> OR you can have 'Automatic Updates' turned off AND Updates alert
you so
: >> that you can manually install them, or just alert you, or turn it
off
: >> completely.
: >
: > When you say "Updates alert", do you mean the third option in the
Automatic
: > Updates settings options window (= "Notify me but don't
automatically
: > download or install them") or were you referring to somewhere
else? I
ask
: > because you canNOT choose this option AND "Turn off Automatic
Updates"
as you
: > seem to suggest--you can only choose one or the other.....In any
case,
we
: > seem to understand each other ...
....
: >
: >> But I am looking into this further, as I too enjoy having more
control
: >> over what Windows does and am convinced that I can find out how
to
start
: >> the background search for updates from the command-line.
: >>
: >> I'll get back to you as soon as I can when I find out about
this...
: >
: >
: > Like I said, I am totally ignorant regarding command lines
...:-(....I
: > assumed that initiating the update search was a matter of simply
activating
: > relevant .exe's (??), which one can always do by
shortcut....Looking
forward
: > to hearing from you!
: >
: > Janet
: >
: >
: >