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Prince - Royal Realm
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      11-28-2005
Greetings To The Community And MVP's In Particular ,

I run XP Home (SP2) and Office 2003 Pro with BCM (both complete with all
updates etc.) , but need to pose this "simple" question .
Since Microsoft has no longer made it possible to manually download AND
INSTALL from the update.microsoft.com site - manual downloads , yes but
automatically installing them = "running" from the site is no longer
supported , I have had to switch to automatic updating which is not my
preferred choice as it sometimes will then automatically restart my computer
(whilst busy with very delicate material) .

The reason for switching to automatic update is simply because I do not know
where the "High Priority Updates" are downloaded to on my computer - THIS
REFERS IN PARTICULAR to manually downloaded "Optional software/hardware
updates" .
I don't know where to look .

As automatic update also (to my limited knowledge thus far) can't select
Optional software/hardware updates , I would very much appreciate being
informed as to where downloaded files including downloaded Optional files are
kept - then I can happily go back to manual updating and installing - as I
now have Optional Software/Hardware updates "downloaded ready to install" .

And if Automatic Update could be configured to also include 'the Optional
files' - how is this accomplished ?

Truly appreciative for the expertise ,
Greetings , Karel .

 
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      11-28-2005


"Prince - Royal Realm" wrote:

> Greetings To The Community And MVP's In Particular ,
>
> I run XP Home (SP2) and Office 2003 Pro with BCM (both complete with all
> updates etc.) , but need to pose this "simple" question .
> Since Microsoft has no longer made it possible to manually download AND
> INSTALL from the update.microsoft.com site - manual downloads , yes but
> automatically installing them = "running" from the site is no longer
> supported , I have had to switch to automatic updating which is not my
> preferred choice as it sometimes will then automatically restart my computer
> (whilst busy with very delicate material) .
>
> The reason for switching to automatic update is simply because I do not know
> where the "High Priority Updates" are downloaded to on my computer - THIS
> REFERS IN PARTICULAR to manually downloaded "Optional software/hardware
> updates" .
> I don't know where to look .
>
> As automatic update also (to my limited knowledge thus far) can't select
> Optional software/hardware updates , I would very much appreciate being
> informed as to where downloaded files including downloaded Optional files are
> kept - then I can happily go back to manual updating and installing - as I
> now have Optional Software/Hardware updates "downloaded ready to install" .
>
> And if Automatic Update could be configured to also include 'the Optional
> files' - how is this accomplished ?
>
> Truly appreciative for the expertise ,
> Greetings , Karel .
>

 
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