Okay, the windowsupdate site is screwed up completely. I installed all available patches for a box here at home that the rest of the family use for simple web tasks (read: hotmail) a while back when I carted the machine into work and high speed connection.
The other day when I went to update again, it said there was about 5mb of security updates to be installed, but half of the ones it wanted to download already had been! I picked the relevant ones and once installed it was all happy and stopped complaining - But making the idiot users download stuff they dont need to is incomprehensible.
When I update my software from X to Y, especially with a patch, I dont expect to have to download the patch for U, V and W as well.
IE doesnt automatically direct you to the updates anyway, if you are one of these people who starts IE via bookmarks, custom shortcuts or means other than the default icon on your desktop then you will often miss it, as you hurry to load slashdot instead. I have a very strong feeling that users who have unchecked the "Automatically Check for Internet Explorer Updates" in the preferences will somehow also not get redirected to the update site.
It really comes down to users somehow being effeciently notified of updates. I always make a point of updating PC's that come in for maintenance at work, and installing the critical update notification tool.
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Okay, the windowsupdate site is screwed up completely. I installed all available patches for a box here at home that the rest of the family use for simple web tasks (read: hotmail) a while back when I carted the machine into work and high speed connection.
The other day when I went to update again, it said there was about 5mb of security updates to be installed, but half of the ones it wanted to download already had been! I picked the relevant ones and once installed it was all happy and stopped complaining - But making the idiot users download stuff they dont need to is incomprehensible.
When I update my software from X to Y, especially with a patch, I dont expect to have to download the patch for U, V and W as well.
IE doesnt automatically direct you to the updates anyway, if you are one of these people who starts IE via bookmarks, custom shortcuts or means other than the default icon on your desktop then you will often miss it, as you hurry to load slashdot instead. I have a very strong feeling that users who have unchecked the "Automatically Check for Internet Explorer Updates" in the preferences will somehow also not get redirected to the update site.
It really comes down to users somehow being effeciently notified of updates. I always make a point of updating PC's that come in for maintenance at work, and installing the critical update notification tool.
exactaly what I was thinking. Its been on the news multiple times. I'm sure if you contact the NZ guy you could buy em.