Was Windows Update Version 5 released to everyone?

The windows update version 5 files were automatically installed on my machine on July 29 when my machine went to do its normal automatic update check.

There was no indication that the files were installing. I just noticed they were installed because I saw wuaclt.exe running and wondered what it was.

I'm also now redirected to the Windows Update version 5 website.

I haven't heard any news of WU5 being released.
Was it released and if not why did WU5 get installed on my machine?

I have Windows XP Pro SP1 installed.

Michael.
Yesterday was the limited rollout of the final release of V5.
A random set of Windows XP computers set to Automatic Update are
getting V5.
Unlike what was on computers, this is the final V5 and not Beta.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"Michael Kraft" <> wrote in
message news:77BF0EA8-2DB5-4787-9CD9-...
> The windows update version 5 files were automatically installed on
my machine on July 29 when my machine went to do its normal automatic
update check.
>
> There was no indication that the files were installing. I just
noticed they were installed because I saw wuaclt.exe running and
wondered what it was.
>
> I'm also now redirected to the Windows Update version 5 website.
>
> I haven't heard any news of WU5 being released.
> Was it released and if not why did WU5 get installed on my machine?
>
> I have Windows XP Pro SP1 installed.

OK, well I noticed that that V5 automatically downloaded the wrong version of the Q867801 update. The version downloaded automatically was at:

http://au.download.windowsupdate.com...38d5504cce.exe

this version contained all the files mentioned in the bulletin except that
mshtml.dll is dated 21-Jan-2004 22:19 version 6.0.2800.1400 size 2,795,520
shlwapi.dll is dated 26-Jun-2004 00:00 version 6.0.2800.1557 size 394,752

These are older (this shlwapi.dll has a newer version number but older date) than the release version that can be downloaded through the bulletin at
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...01-x86-ENU.exe

After this old version installed I installed the newer version. Windows Update than tried to automatically install the old version on top of it. I finally had to disable automatic updates to get this to stop.

Why is this?

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:

> Michael.
> Yesterday was the limited rollout of the final release of V5.
> A random set of Windows XP computers set to Automatic Update are
> getting V5.
> Unlike what was on computers, this is the final V5 and not Beta.
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>
>
> "Michael Kraft" <> wrote in
> message news:77BF0EA8-2DB5-4787-9CD9-...
> > The windows update version 5 files were automatically installed on
> my machine on July 29 when my machine went to do its normal automatic
> update check.
> >
> > There was no indication that the files were installing. I just
> noticed they were installed because I saw wuaclt.exe running and
> wondered what it was.
> >
> > I'm also now redirected to the Windows Update version 5 website.
> >
> > I haven't heard any news of WU5 being released.
> > Was it released and if not why did WU5 get installed on my machine?
> >
> > I have Windows XP Pro SP1 installed.
>
>
>

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:54:23 -0600, "Jupiter Jones [MVP]"
<> wrote in microsoft.public.windowsupdate:

>Yesterday was the limited rollout of the final release of V5.
>A random set of Windows XP computers set to Automatic Update are
>getting V5.

Possibly not quite. My PC is not set to Automatic Update, and is being
redirected to V5. While I could previously return to V4 by typing that
URL explicitly, this no longer seems to work. Sub-pages of V4, like
<http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/troubleshoot/> still work, but
not the main site. And no, I haven't tried to roll back wuauclt - I'm
getting tired of fighting with MS over my PC: you win.

>Unlike what was on computers, this is the final V5 and not Beta.

--
Michael Bednarek http://mbednarek.com/ "POST NO BILLS"