repetitive updates...

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Gordon J. Rattray

Hi there,

I've got 3 machines in my office and one of them is always wanting to
download and install updates at shutdown time. This past week it wanted to
download and install 36 updates, then it installed 6 of them, and shutdown,
then the next time I shutdown, it wanted to do 30 updates and installs. Then
it was 8 updates and installs. And another 12 yesterday.

This morning it wanted to do 40 updates and installs and it looked like it
did only one install and shutdown. Now I started it back up and shut it down
again and it was a clean shutdown, but where are there other 39 or less
installs and updates.

I'm confused as there must be a miscount somewhere.....that's the only thing
wrong with this machine, otherwise it's great. The other 2 machines in the
office don't do this.

Gordon
 
Gordon, 2 suggestions...

(@) Turn off Automatic Updates!
[Control Panel] > [Automatic Updates]

or at very least, select an option to notify you when updates
are available, but not to DL them until you say so!

What I don't like about Automatic Updating, is that it does not give
you the option to select what is actually installed. Some updates are
not welcome on my computers from microsoft! Thus, I prefer
auto-updating diabled, and I just do it manually now and then, and I
always select [CUSTOM] on the update page, so I can see what updates
are available, and select the updates that I want.
 
Gordon, 1 suggestion...

(@) Turn off Automatic Updates!
[Control Panel] > [Automatic Updates]

or at very least, select an option to notify you when updates
are available, but not to DL them until you say so!

What I don't like about Automatic Updating, is that it does not give
you the option to select what is actually installed. Some updates are
not welcome on my computers from microsoft! Thus, I prefer
auto-updating diabled, and I just do it manually now and then, and I
always select [CUSTOM] on the update page, so I can see what updates
are available, and select the updates that I want.
 
Perhaps log on to the winupdate page, scan for updates, then view the update
logs.
With that many updates is entirely possible the updates are not actually
installing
 
I think that's what's happening... they are NOT installing...

I've changed it to "D'Load, but do not install" and see what happens

Gordon
 
Gordon said:
I've got 3 machines in my office and one of them is always wanting to
download and install updates at shutdown time. This past week it wanted to
Click to expand...

Disable windows from installing/downloading new updates. Only
download/install updates you need or want.
 
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