Important Update for Windows Vista (KB955020) 56.3 MB

[Vista User]

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

 

[Gordon]

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded
from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates"
before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At
Risk," turns the Windows Live
OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at
risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to
automatically download and install "important"
updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as
KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary
for Microsoft Office, which I do not and > will not use) before I am able
to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is
considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it
completes?

Dunno, what is this to do with OUTLOOK? And please do NOT post in
HTML....and also do NOT crosspost to more than TWO OR THREE RELATED
groups...you have posted to NINE.



..

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.


Yes..

Because Windows Update is not customized to individuals. You may not use spell check, but many do..

The time it would take to download and install would represent an infinitesimally small downtime for you..


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[Cameron Snyder]

The update download you whine about contained several updates that your silly spelling component was just a part. I've never had to wait while an update installed and can restart when I choose. Your machine or configuration is deficient in some way. How were you forced to wait?
I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

 

[Nonny]

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from
Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me
the use of my own computer until it completes?

Can you tell any of us why we should care that you were
inconvenienced?

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

I suggest:
1) Get a broadband connection: Then you won't have to wait.
2) Grow up a little, and stop being so predjudiced. By the way, Barak
Obama is a member of the Church of Christ, not a Muslim. If you hate
him, you hate Christ Himself.

Beyond those two "important updates" you absolutely need need, do
this:
1) Set Windows Update to download updates, but allow you to choose
which updates are to be installed and when they will be installed
(Option 3, I think). Then you won't be kept from doing other things
while they are downloading. Additionally, you willl be able to decide
which updates to install, and which ones to not install.
2) Set Security Center to not notify you about Security matters.


Donald L McDaniel

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

The update download you whine about contained several updates that your silly spelling component was just a part. I've never had to wait while an update installed and can restart when I choose. Your machine or configuration is deficient in some way. How were you forced to wait?
I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats."

There's a major problem, friend: You're using Windows Live OneCare,
rather than a stand-alone anti-malware package, such as Eset's
NOD32 AV.

And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Sorry for misunderstanding your statement. I saw it in context this
time, and now understand what you were saying: that you don't use
Microsoft Office, not that you don't use the five added words.

I apologize for suggesting that you were a racist idiot of some sort.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Possibly because your machine is not powerful enough to use Vista, or
your connection is much too slow in this day of broadband access
speeds of 10Mbps and above. I can understand if you can't afford the
$40 or so a month for a broadband connection, or if you live out in
the Boondocks, where broadband access is extremely slow,and very
expensive (i.e., "Satellite").

For the majority of us, such a download would never "deny our use of
our own computers". Not that it does "deny you the use...", since you
don't have to download it if you dont want to. You have to make that
decision, not Microsoft, who have made it easy to make such a choice.

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

In fact, almost ALL Windows Updates require restarting.
The OP should know that by now.

BTW, PLEASE start using Wordwrap in your posts, or make your lines
about half as long as they are. If your client does not allow for
setting the right margin at 80 characters or less you can always enter
a hard return (just hit <Enter> where you want one.)

Most clients allow one to set the right margin at about 72-78
characters.

Donald L McDaniel

 

[PD43]

Obama is a member of the Church of Christ

Not any more. He switched.

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

The update download you whine about contained several updates that your silly spelling component was just a part. I've never had to wait while an update installed and can restart when I choose. Your machine or configuration is deficient in some way. How were you forced to wait?
I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

Sorry, CAmeron, again my selection was on the wrong post when I
started my response. This is a perenial problem of mine. I did
intend to respond to the OP, but somehow, my selection rectangle
settled on your response to the OP, rather than his post.

Please accept my sincere apologies.

I will do my best to not repeat my mistake.


Donald L McDaniel

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

Not any more. He switched.

Ok, so which church did he switch to?
Far as I know, he still hasn't found a home church yet.

In any case, his spirit is still attached to the Church of Christ, in
which he was raised.

WE are all members of the Body of Christ, aren't we? But anyone with
any spiritual discernment would know that we aren't PHYSICALLY
connected to Him in the same way our arms and legs are physically
connected to our torsos.


Donald L McDaniel

 

[Bruce.]

" Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is
considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it
completes?"

Everything about Vista is bloated and slow, including the updates. It's a
rule.

Bruce.

 

[Nonny]

Ok, so which church did he switch to?
Far as I know, he still hasn't found a home church yet.

Apostolic Church of God. He will stick with it until he moves to
Washington, I'd suspect.

 

[Tom Allen]

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded
from Windows Update before I could use my own >computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates"
before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows >my computer to be
"At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and
prompts me that my computer "May be >at risk from Internet threats."
And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install
"important" updates, I am >forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important"
update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the
English >dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not
use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update
is considered important enough to deny me the >use of my own computer
until it completes?

You might consider setting Windows Updates to install automatically on a
Monday which would solve 95% of your problem. It would keep One Care
green and happy and give you a week after notification of available
updates, on the monthly 'Update Tuesday', to choose your moment. It
works for me although I like to get them installed asap. The occasional
out of sequence update might catch you out. I don't think downloads
prevent you from using your computer and you could control the restarts.
From watching what happens it seems to me that the term 'downloading' is
used rather loosely by the Windows Update process.

BTW what happened to the other updates in the batch ?
I did wonder who authorised the time, effort and expense of inserting
four German words and a politician that way

Tom

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Post your b*tch here instead, please:

Windows Live OneCare Forums
http://forums.microsoft.com/windowsonecare/default.aspx?siteid=2
--
~PAÞ

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

 

[Ralph Craymer]

Ok, so which church did he switch to?
Far as I know, he still hasn't found a home church yet.

In any case, his spirit is still attached to the Church of Christ, in
which he was raised.

WE are all members of the Body of Christ, aren't we? But anyone with
any spiritual discernment would know that we aren't PHYSICALLY
connected to Him in the same way our arms and legs are physically
connected to our torsos.

Speak for yourself TONTO. Since there is NO God, you are speaking for
yourself. You believe the stories that were written a few thousand years
ago. Religion is the root of all evil. All of the historical wars have
been over religion. The nutbags in the middle east all believe their
religion is best and everyone should die in the name of their GOD. The
problems in Ireland have all been about religion. If you want to believe,
keep it to yourself. Don't spew that crap here. Religion has nothing to do
with Vista.

If there was a GOD, why would he take a newborn child? People say it's GODs
will. God has a plan. If that was God's plan, I would find ANOTHER ONE not
so ****ED up. Get a life.

 

[DanS_]

Can you tell any of us why we should care that you were
inconvenienced?

I'd venture a guess that it's the same reason that any of us should care
about how you feel when someone you haven't KF'd reponds to a troll.

Maybe the OP feels everything should convenient and perfect for him, like
you want it.

But now I see, it's OK for you to post troll-like comments, when you say
you're here to help people and that the trolls are bothersome to you, stick
to the topic, etc.

And yes, that is what your comment was, just another post belittling
someone, and not offering any help, or even addressing the question in any
way.

And actually, I've seen more than a few posts like this from you, so you're
not so innocent as you'd like others to believe.