[access-uk] Re: Windows update query
- From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:59:51 -0000
Hi.
Try opening the web browser and going to the following address:
http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate
If your using Microsoft Office 2000 and above, you can also use:
http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate
which will get you both updates for Windows as well as your office products
in one place.
Hope this has been of some help.
PS If you turn off automatic updates you won't receive any security or other
important patches, however you can always have it alert you when updates
have been downloaded and you can then install them at your convenience.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:50 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Windows update query
I doubt very much Microsoft would have changed the address without putting
some kind of redirect on there. All we need to do is ask if someone has
reinstalled an XP machine recently and then done updates.
Also, somebody can tell me if this is wrong, but even if you have Windows
Update turned off, there are some items which Microsoft have been updating
anyway, and I would have thought the link to Windows Update would be
included.
Didn't they get in trouble some time ago because it turned out they were
actually putting updates on peoples PC's even when they had chosen not to
receive updates.
Peter
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From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 6:10 PM
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Windows update query
I recently discovered that a friend of mine had never bothered with
Windows Updates during
the 3 years or so in which he had been using his XP computer. I quickly
explained to him the
risks he was taking and suggested that he should rectify things as
quickly as possible.
However he has come back to me today to say that whether he tries to get
onto the Windows
Update page via the start menu item or via Control Panel he cannot even
get onto the web
page to check what updates he needs - hundreds I should guess!
The only explanation must be that the address of the Windows update site
has been
changed during the last three years or so - in fact I seem to remember
this happening. So I
think that he needs to use the direct URL. Unfortunately I do not
currently have a machine
running XP with an internet connection - my main machine is Vista.
I wonder whether someone using XP could help by giving me the URL to
which their machine
connects, so that I can pass it on to my friend.
Thanks in advance,
Douglas
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