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winders updates today

Windows XP here. On the first run through, I got a popup message about verifying a file right after a message about unzipping files. At the bottom of iexplorer 8, it was showing an attempt to access a Microsoft site. Nothing happened for 10 min so I cancelled the process. I ran update again a second time and it completed successfully with no popups or unzipping messages. As I often do, I always run update once more after completion to verify no other files are in need of update. Today, the malicious software app was updated a second time. The first time was also the July 2013 version and it said it completed successfully. After updating it a second time, there were no more updates shown on the third run of Windows Update. In all there were 14 updates to my system as I refused Bing Desktop 1.3.
 
Yep. I'm on the M$ mailing list bot so I always know in advance what to expect.

Just did 17 on my Win8, and am doing 17 on the Wife's Win7.

Although both machines are set to automatic updates, I prefer to do them directly to make sure they succeed. Sometimes the automatic update process is not too smart. :running:
 
The wifes had around 78 updates. After 2+ hours they all came up as FAILED, but when I turned the darn thing off it said Shutting down...Installing 1 of 78 updates. Much, much later, only 8 failed but the computer was appallingly slow. Still much later, the Blue Screen of Physical Memory Dump came up. Not too much later after restart, it was no worse than before the always beneficial updates. I figure it got over fed and burped.
 
I've always disallowed "automatic updates" but instead run them manually whenever I have a few hours to kill...

...because I leave all of my machines on 24/7 and frequently have files open for editing simultaneously. Having the machines reboot during an update cycle has trashed too many of my files by shutting down open programs will-he-nill-he... :icon_eek:
 
What I have noticed is that it sometimes takes more than one pass to get all the updates in place.

When I "Check for Updates", it may indicate there are 17 Critical Updates but there may be more including a few unchecked. Trying to do them all at once causes a failure.

Like yesterday after I updated the 17 Critical Updates that were checked, I went back and did 4 more that were critical but unchecked.

It's a hassle and not foolproof, but I like to get things done and out of the way.
 
I hid hid an update for Office 2007 and ran the rest. I don't have Office 2007 on my system, so there's no need to allow updates for it. My office 2010 is up to date.
 
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