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Theodoric · 22-07-2005, 16:55

A week or so ago I decided to make a serious attempt to get up to date with my Windows updates. I go to the MS update site and find that I am now required to install a piece of software in order to download any updates. So, I download this and run a few updates.

I attempted to continue the downloads today and got a message that said I couldn't do this until I ran services.msc and started Automatic Updates, BITS and the Event Log. Well, I did this and it graciously allowed me to carry on downloading and installing.

What is MS up to; this making life more complicated every few weeks? Are there future complications in the pipeline.

And a couple of other points.

I noticed that one or two of the updates were labelled as zero size because they had been downloaded and were awaiting installation. I don't remember downloading them.

Just to confuse the likes of me, it would seem that the Automatic Downloads service is not the same as the Automatic Downloads in the Security Centre (I have it switched off).

22-07-2005, 16:55	#1
Theodoric Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: London Posts: 2,974	Windows Updates - Why does MS keep moving the goal posts? A week or so ago I decided to make a serious attempt to get up to date with my Windows updates. I go to the MS update site and find that I am now required to install a piece of software in order to download any updates. So, I download this and run a few updates. I attempted to continue the downloads today and got a message that said I couldn't do this until I ran services.msc and started Automatic Updates, BITS and the Event Log. Well, I did this and it graciously allowed me to carry on downloading and installing. What is MS up to; this making life more complicated every few weeks? Are there future complications in the pipeline. And a couple of other points. I noticed that one or two of the updates were labelled as zero size because they had been downloaded and were awaiting installation. I don't remember downloading them. Just to confuse the likes of me, it would seem that the Automatic Downloads service is not the same as the Automatic Downloads in the Security Centre (I have it switched off).