Make sure that is the setting in Control Panel | Automatic Updates. What
you described is setting 3 (third option), to only notify of downloads.....
How do youknow that updates have been installed? Can you give an example?
"helena" <> wrote in message
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> in my windows security settings i have set updates to only download after
> i
> have checked them, yet i have found that updates are being downloaded
> without
> my confirming them.
> this has happened several times and i now don't even know what the update
> trying to restart my computer is.
> why is this happening and is there any way to stop it?