Microsoft Important Security updates keep failing? (laptops, desktop, screen, icon)
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On my Windows 8.1 PC I have to do updates manually, if left on automatic its guarateed some will fail often locking up the PC. Also I have found its best to do only do about 8 files at one time.
How old is Win 7 and we're still getting, on a monthly basis, over a dozen updates with over 100 megs? I think at this point that all the updates are a larger file than the whole windows program.
I don't click 'update' but it soon does it anyway. Seems the download starts when an idle screen occurs.
Are you certain that they failed? Yesterday, I had two Win7 HP laptops and 1 Win7 Pro desktop computers download 29 Windows updates, then give me the red "fail" error. All 2 machines did that. But 29 updates installed on each when I shut down and restarted the machines. I did a shutdown, not restart.
When the updates installed, one was close to 30,000 changes, it took forever, then it rebooted the machines when completed.
fwiw, the family's Android tabled collection also had to update just about everything on them this past week. There were announcements about vulnerabilities now found in Windows that had been found earlier in Android. It was interesting that a massive slew of updates followed, on both platforms. I am the (elderly) neighborhood's free tech support, and updating all their toys was getting a bit tedious this week.
How old is Win 7 and we're still getting, on a monthly basis, over a dozen updates with over 100 megs? I think at this point that all the updates are a larger file than the whole windows program.
I don't click 'update' but it soon does it anyway. Seems the download starts when an idle screen occurs.
Enhancements/brake fixes/security patches are constant. They are providing it all customers a whole. That said, you may or may not actually need to update. Or more specifically, applying updates may not have any impact on you (depending on how you are using it). This includes security updates. Just because there is a vulnerability - it doesn't mean you are automatically at risk. In fact, in some instances, applying an update may actually break something (hence why enterprises will always test patches/updates before applying them).
That being said, how you use the computer may change. In a home environment, it's just easier to apply the patches than to have to test things every time you change your habits.
Well it shows for 3 days now Updates Available, yet it is green w/ no new updates after constant attempts to retry, & so after the 3 failed updates again show, after yet another retry & they simply again -- remain red despite restart or shutdowns, & I then assume they're failed still.
So part of me thinks all are ok & done, but yet the continued prompt new updates adds confusion. Anyone think it is ok this way & left undone?
Thus, it is showing/prompting to do these failed 3 updates (in the little icon on bottom of my pc) but it is green & none available -- when performing a check for Windows Updates? Why??
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