How to Use the Windows Update Feature by: Peter C. Forrest

Your organization has decided to provide software updates internally rather than through Windows Update. To download updates for your Windows computer, please see your network administrator.





When you use Windows Update you'll see a big blue Download
button. IGNORE IT COMPLETELY. Choosing this option will
download the updates, apply them, and then automatically delete
the downloads. The larger downloads (such as service packs) can
be saved, but many of the smaller downloads cannot. You'd need
a protected recycle bin or an unerase utility to recover them.

Instead, expand the description for the downloads you want, and
click the 'Read This' links on each. On those pages you will find a
link to the patch in the Microsoft Download Centre. If not, look
for a Microsoft Bulletin link - the Patch Availability link will be
found there instead.

You can then  download and save the update, to be run at a later
date. The update will not be deleted when you run the patch, so
you can use it on multiple machines.

When you have all the current updates, burn them to a CD-R/RW
for safe-keeping. Packet CDs are better, since you'll want to add
new updates as soon as you download them.

Also, if you subscribe to the relevant bulletins you'll be informed
of new updates as soon as they are made available - with links
directly to the patches. You then won't need Windows Update,
nor critical update, at all.

HTH
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   Peter C. Forrest
   http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk

 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved
 at the same level of thinking we were at when we
 created them.' - Albert Einstein