Auto Update Issue

[Guest]

I have dial up, which is why I have an issue. I run XPHome SP2 and
Office 2003 SP1.

Apparently, somewhere in Office 2003 or in the Windows Update agent,
I have set a switch to automatically check for updates...or the switch
is set somewhere. A small yellow icon appeared and for over 10 days it
stole my bandwidth as it downloaded four files...recent Office SP2
sized files. I couldn't find out how to disable the download, so I let
it run to completeion. I was getting these up dates on a CD but now
that I have them, I want to install them. How does that work and how
to I prevent any future automatic downloading of such large
files....about 160MB for all four.

Thanks for the help.

Henry

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I never recommend disabling automatic updates. If you need more control
over what is downloaded and installed, go to the control panel and double
click on Automatic Updates. Fill in the radio button of Notify me but don't
automatically download and install.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[ANONYMOUS]

To auto-update settings you need to go to Control Panel and select
Security Center.

From there, you will have the option to change the options. I suggest
you should select to be notified of updates but not to download or to
install. this way you will know what to do and where to get the updates
from.

Did you know that there are dedicated Windows XP Newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support

HTH

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice...and yes, I am aware of many things..but
whether this was an XP or office issue was not one of them. Since
Windows update apparently choses to include office updates now, it
seems like one or the other fora would work..but you haven't told me
how to actually install these large files that are now just sitting
there. Since they are Office update files, do you suggest I go to an
XP forum for that advice?? Or maybe you could share a little more
oxygen and just tell me.

Henry