Update gripe

[Guest]

I'm on a 'dial-up' connection and after install it started receiving an
update but there is no 'progress' bar or indication of the size of the
download I'm receiving. Do I wait for 1 min or 1 hour?

 

[Guest]

If you hover your mouse over the Windows Update Shield on your taskbar, it
may show the progress of the download by percent completed. Or try
downloading it from Windows Update web site. That gives a clear picture of
the download progress.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

If you want to see progress--go to Windows Update and do a check for
updates. Automatic updates use the BITS service--they should be background
and interruptable--you should be able to just ignore them completely and go
about your business, and eventually, when enough idle connection bandwidth
has been available, it'll arrive.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for both comments. I've successfully received update 1.13.1286.1 via
Win Update and it functioned fine - my gripe was about the immediate
post-install update which didn't come (from my perspective) via WU and gave
no clue as to what was going on. Thanks again.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Yes--the automatic updates within the program work via autoupdate, and I
don't think you get the little icon with percentages indicated that is
sometimes visible with autoupdate.

I haven't seen a lot of feedback about how this works with a dialup. In
general, you should just ignore autoupdate--open and close the connection at
your own choice--the background processes should take care of themselves and
neither initiate a dialup, nor prevent you from closing the connection--and
they'll resume when the connection is available, and not fully utilized by
the user.

I can see why that first update would be annoying.

I think that I would recommend that dialup users uncheck the box to do that
update and scan, so that they can do those operations--update via Windows
Update, then close the connection and scan--at their own choice of time.
(but not many dialup users will read advice like this before they reach that
point!)


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