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Topic: yellow MS update icon |
Ron Victoria
From:
New Jersey, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2007 1:45 pm |
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I want to know what updates are ready to download. I used to right click that yellow shield to see them but now the download screen comes up. How can I see what's there? I have winXP.
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 3 Dec 2007 2:09 pm
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Here's what I've got on my XP---I never know if it's the same on someone else's---
Go to your control panel (either from Start>Setting>Control Panel or from My Computer) and find Automatic Updates. Select "notify me but don't automatically download or install them".
I don't know how it happens but I've had this setting get changed on me and have to be reset. |
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Wiz Feinberg
From:
Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 3 Dec 2007 3:19 pm
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Microsoft has altered Automatic Windows Updates to version 2.0, or something other than what is was. The main file that changed is wups2.dll, which used to be wups.dll. Nobody was notified until the feat was accomplished, then all hell broke loose. In total nine critical files associated with the Windows Update Service were irreversibly altered. It is not unlikely that the changes you are experiencing with trying to view the available updates has something to do with these changes.
I want to warn you in advance that should any of you have to reinstall Windows XP, by performing an inplace "repair" upgrade, that because of the changes to the Windows Updates files, you will have to re-register the new WUPS2.DLL to get Windows Updates to work again. The command must be run from a command window. Goto Start > Run, type CMD and hit Enter. In the DOS Window that opens type, or paste these codes, hitting "Enter" after each line:
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net stop wuauserv
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\wups2.dll
net start wuauserv
exit
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Restart Windows, then run Manual Windows Updates to fetch all available updates, which will have been lost after "repairing" Windows.
More information about this issue is available from Microsoft, here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943144
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winston
From:
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
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Posted 3 Dec 2007 7:51 pm
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Ron
I just double click the yellow shield and tell it custom install and it will show you what the downloads are. You can choose to install or not. Winston |
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