using Add or Remove programs

[Guest]

Using Add or Remove programs my computer gives me a date of a program last
used and it may say 5/06 when I know I used it yesterday. How can that
program be updated to tell the truth??

Another problem is Windows update tells me my computer needs to be updated
and when I click to update it then tells me that one update can not be
completed. What can I do to install the update that's not loading?

 

[Curt Christianson]

Hi Terry,

As to your first question regarding Add/Remove programs--that's a bug that's
been in there for some time, and it's trivial enough where I would be
pleasantly surprised if MS fixed it. Heck, some apps. I use on a daily
basis, and A/R says I use it "rarely"?? Huh?

As to your second question, visit the folks at the Windows Update NG. They
are real experts at this stuff, and it's all they do.

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...655-a5d5-4c07-bdb0-90caf9f30c42&lang=en&cr=us

--
HTH,
Curt

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| Using Add or Remove programs my computer gives me a date of a program last
| used and it may say 5/06 when I know I used it yesterday. How can that
| program be updated to tell the truth??
|
| Another problem is Windows update tells me my computer needs to be updated
| and when I click to update it then tells me that one update can not be
| completed. What can I do to install the update that's not loading?
|

 

[Nightowl]

Using Add or Remove programs my computer gives me a date of a program last
used and it may say 5/06 when I know I used it yesterday. How can that
program be updated to tell the truth??

If I remember rightly, it only takes notice if you start the program
from the Start Menu. If you normally start it from a shortcut, or by
double-clicking on a file, Add/Remove will pretend it didn't happen

 

[Guest]

You might be able to contact Microsoft and see if you can get a CD for updates.