Win Update Superfluous

XP Home w/IE7
If IE is essentially shut down, no downloads permitted, Active X off &
extreme high security setting, updates turned off, how would MS slip the
update-update across to my system? Moot anyway since I manually find and
download updates as necessary using FF. Will (or can) the Windows download
site(s) push the update-update across a non MS browser not having ActiveX?
Just curious and am not concerned, but the side benefit to me is update will
no longer work even by accident, right? It's disabled if the update-update
is not installed?

please reply to my E-mail as I won't be able to find my way back here again.
Squirrels ate the cookie crumbs.

Bill45 wrote:
> XP Home w/IE7
> If IE is essentially shut down, no downloads permitted, Active X
> off & extreme high security setting, updates turned off, how would
> MS slip the update-update across to my system? Moot anyway since I
> manually find and download updates as necessary using FF. Will (or
> can) the Windows download site(s) push the update-update across a
> non MS browser not having ActiveX? Just curious and am not
> concerned, but the side benefit to me is update will no longer work
> even by accident, right? It's disabled if the update-update is not
> installed?
>
> please reply to my E-mail as I won't be able to find my way back
> here again. Squirrels ate the cookie crumbs.

If you won't be able to find your way back here, there's no point in
answering beyond the obvious...

Wha?!

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Bill45 wrote:
> > XP Home w/IE7
> > If IE is essentially shut down, no downloads permitted, Active X
> > off & extreme high security setting, updates turned off, how would
> > MS slip the update-update across to my system? Moot anyway since I
> > manually find and download updates as necessary using FF. Will (or
> > can) the Windows download site(s) push the update-update across a
> > non MS browser not having ActiveX? Just curious and am not
> > concerned, but the side benefit to me is update will no longer work
> > even by accident, right? It's disabled if the update-update is not
> > installed?
> >
> > please reply to my E-mail as I won't be able to find my way back
> > here again. Squirrels ate the cookie crumbs.
>
> If you won't be able to find your way back here, there's no point in
> answering beyond the obvious...
>
> Wha?!
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

Think the OP is referring to this - http://blogs.technet.com/mu/
and/o
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...c-updates.aspx

K