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Post by alexham36 on Nov 12, 2011 18:31:18 GMT
Mikh, I installle Win7 32bit only 2 days ago and I am flooded by updates using up my bandwidth - over 60 in 2 days.
I don't know how to turn the automatic updates off. Can you help?
Also, are these updates so important that I cannot downloaded manually, say once a month after midnight when I am on unlimited bandwidth?
Many Thanks,
Alex
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Post by buzzy on Nov 13, 2011 14:58:18 GMT
Alex, The reason your have received rather a lot of Windows updates is because this is the first time you have downloaded them (seemingly automatically). You can turn the automatic updates off but this is not necessarily a good idea. It is better to 'customise' the updates program to your own preferred requirements. Click on the start button on the bottom left of the task bar and then in the screen that appears (Start Menu) on the right, click on Control Panel > Windows Update > Change settings, Select your preferred choice and then click OK
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Post by biker on Nov 14, 2011 0:51:47 GMT
change the settings to only install important updates ... the rest is mostly fluff anyway
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Post by mikkh on Nov 14, 2011 13:35:03 GMT
I usually turn updates off initially and go straight for SP1 which contains all previous updates in one package. Once you've got that installed, the updates should be fairly minimal
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Post by alexham36 on Nov 28, 2011 11:14:00 GMT
Thank you Buzzy. I shall be downloading after midnight when my bandwidth is not capped.
Alex
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Post by johnnybee on Sept 21, 2012 0:11:19 GMT
Alex; get yourself a more accomodating ISP; capping bandwidth is a sure sign of an outfit that's more concerned with money rather than service. Most ISP's these days employ a "reasonable use" policy, whereby a user might have periods of high usage, followed by fairly quiet periods where bandwidth is relatively light. Capping is an arbitrary method of making sure that they win, you lose, irrespective of how much you pay for their service.
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Post by vikingken on Sept 21, 2012 4:51:15 GMT
Even after SP1, which is on my installation disks, Windows 7 x 64 installs over 90 updates. I would think that x 86 would be a few less, but not many. They dont come all in one go, because the updates for the updates come after you install the first ones. I have currently got 132 installed and a hell of a lot hidden that I dont want. That number includes MS Office 2003 and I have extra for the heavy duty graphics. My laptop isn't that far behind and that hasn't got any magic graphics.
If I was you, I would turn them off and turn them on to install at night when you are on unlimited bandwidth. Theres not a lot else you can do. If it was XP I would recommend turning them off, leaving them off and not downloading any. Windows 7 is different as its still a developing OS and some of them you need. The updates are much different to XP and they are not just security patches, but important bits of kit. I wouldn't delay in doing it, you might find things wont work properly until they have been installed. Some of the OS had to be left out, there wouldn't have been enough room on a DVD for it all. Its not just the size of the installed OS, every installation disk has all 3 operating systems on it. The only difference is 3 x 64 bit or 3 times 32 bit. As long as you have got an Ultimate Key number, you can install it using a Home Premium disk and vice versa.
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Post by jojo on Sept 21, 2012 11:42:02 GMT
Drive my wife nuts on her Windows 7 machine as well.
Adobe is another.
Actually, she gets her own back by summoning me every time to come and see it.
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Post by johnnybee on Aug 11, 2013 0:31:10 GMT
Okay, so this is nearly a full year later; Win7 has been "superceded" by Win8 - well, sort of - (chuckle!) and Win 7 has been universally acclaimed as the best OS since XP. Whether W8 eventally gets sorted or not, we've had three years of W7 development that has made it the most popular Windows offering yet, with over four billion users; question is, has the Win 7 experience been a good one for you personally, or would you have rather stayed with XP if you'd had the option? Personally I left it late to move to XP from W2K - until after SP2 in 2005, but XP wasn't all that different to W2K in most respects, just "different" in the detail. Typically I also left it late to go over to W7 from XP - not for any reason other than finding out where the problems might be, and if it was worth making the transition on that basis. My only problem - as far as it goes - is finding Win7 drivers for my bits and bobs that have served me well under the XP regime; however I think we've all suffered from that particular syndrome when "updating" through the various flavours of Windows - it somehow seems to be "expected" that when you update your OS, you also have to buy a complete fit of new peripherals to go with it, or nothing works. Now as a former Naval Person and a confirmed tightwad, I find this sort of caper highly objectionable; it's almost like being a part of a world-wide cartel where you're buggered if you do, and buggered if you don't - whichever way you go, you're gonna have to pay out more dough. Call me old-fashioned if you like, but apart from the later years of the car industry, I can't think of any other retail sector anywhere that deliberately follows a policy of enforced obsolescence; okay, I appreciate that tech improves and software writers have to make a living, but they way things have been going over the past few years the computing industry - mainly Micro$haft, to be fair - need to realise that all the $billions they have in the bank won't buy them customers. To get custom, and keep it, requires a certain amount of give and take on both sides, and virtually forcing people to upgrade their equipment is NOT the way to go about it. Right, rant over - I'm off to beddy-byes! Sleep tight, folks!
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Post by merchant42 on Aug 15, 2013 15:30:48 GMT
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