Windows Downtime

Q

Just a question for those that have a version of Windows with that noxious "autoupdater": What do you set Windows's update schedule to? Download and install, download, notify, or buzz off?

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alexzarach

buzz off.

I do it manually-from update.microsoft.com.

BOD

I let it download, but ask me when to install.

Q

I do the same when I'm bored, but with Windows Update instead of MSU.

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RN

BOD wrote:

I let it download, but ask me when to install.

Evlhxrdood

I let is ask, but NEVER download and install, I have heard way too many horror stories of people that had auto update on and it downloaded the WGA junk and messed up their systems.

I don't want that to happen, totally unnecessary and my legitimate key could be flagged, why take that chance?

Q

I was always wary, but after that WGA nonsense I'm giving it no chance, fair or foul.

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Ka0s

D-I-S-A-B-L-E.

Lupinthe3rd

Never let it run at all, don't give a damn about updates they can shove them up their jacksies for all I care.

Kor

I have WU ask me when it needs to install updates BUT sometimes certain updates are so important they are installed without me knowing about them until I wake up one morning and see thaty green shield in the system tray.

stitch

Well I don't have "Automatic Updates", but I have Software Update, and I disabled it.

BOD

horror stories? What like the auto updater jumped out the screen and killed you?

All you gotta do is deny it the first time, then it *never* bothers you.

Ka0s

Lupinthe3rd wrote:

Never let it run at all, don't give a damn about updates they can shove them up their jacksies for all I care.

Same, I dont need all their retarded Windows Media Player updates and Outlook Express exploit patches.