Windows update

[Pitbull]

First time this week on my laptop.

I've been connected now for 28 minutes @ 1.8Mbps and it's only done 28% WTH ? How big is this download ?

 

[kingrob]

First time this week on my laptop.

I've been connected now for 28 minutes @ 1.8Mbps and it's only done 28% WTH ? How big is this download ?

You need iBurst or ADSL for big downloads - the 'Connected @ 3.6Mbps' doesn't mean much...rather a constant download speed of 100kbps/second..

 

[Pitbull]

You need iBurst or ADSL for big downloads - the 'Connected @ 3.6Mbps' doesn't mean much...rather a constant download speed of 100kbps/second..

a bit big for an update don't u think ?

should teach me to update daily

 

[nocilah]

hey there was a vista update today... dunno what it did.

but yeah you should do updates

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

First time this week on my laptop.

I've been connected now for 28 minutes @ 1.8Mbps and it's only done 28% WTH ? How big is this download ?

I'm guessing that 1.8mbps is HSDPA.. that usually, actually never, will be your real speed.

 

[supersunbird]

Windows XP currently has something like 74 critical updates on a clean Service Pack 2 install, one of which is 14MB of IE7...

 

[krycor]

yup, re-installed and got a shock of my life when it said installing 1 of 74 before rebooting at the same i was lmao, it took a longish time tho. i think its about 100MB - 150MB worth??

 

[lilDeath]

First time this week on my laptop.

I've been connected now for 28 minutes @ 1.8Mbps and it's only done 28% WTH ? How big is this download ?

How far behind are you exactly with the updates?
How many updates are you doing?
It all depends as certain updates are pretty big, especially the frameworks and apps. These don't normally install by default, or the recommended setting.
Normal fixes and stuff is normally not that big.

Of course if you're on a company domain policy which pushes the updates out, they can send you whichever updates they decide... this should be local traffic though and not coming form MS.

 

[Random717]

its probably the .net updates... it installs updates for .net 1, then it installs .net 2, then it installs updates for .net 2... next month they'll probably add .net 3 to it as well. Surely one package can cover the lot?

 

[The_Techie]

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 was added a little while back. But I agree, one package would be extremely handy.

 

[feo]

Well I had to disable Windows Update a few weeks back because it keeps trying to download IE7 (and my XP aint legit so it wont let it install once its downloaded) so Im also falling behind with updates unless I can find a way to install IE7 by itself.

 

[.geek]

AutoPatcher

 

[adsl3g]

Well I had to disable Windows Update a few weeks back because it keeps trying to download IE7 (and my XP aint legit so it wont let it install once its downloaded) so Im also falling behind with updates unless I can find a way to install IE7 by itself.

Set your update to inform you of new updates - when it says there are updates, select the second option - customised install - a window will open showing the updates - you can then deselect IE7 and it won't install it.

 

[lilDeath]

its probably the .net updates... it installs updates for .net 1, then it installs .net 2, then it installs updates for .net 2... next month they'll probably add .net 3 to it as well. Surely one package can cover the lot?

Afraid not, the 3 versions are vastly different, design-wise.
Version 1 code wont work if you only have Version 3, for instance.