update management

My situation is this. I have an 11 year old laptop. This is now ONLY used as a display for a weather station, using a proprietary Windows XP application, so I am not interested in any new Windows features that 1803 might bring. Nevertheless up until now I have let all upgrades proceed. Now...

When I first got my PC I got it all set up the way I liked it then created a system image. I then followed every guide I can find on the internet to disable auto update and telemetry. This worked great for about a year until today. I went to turn off my PC and boom there it was, "Restart and...

I've recently got a new computer without an OS, I bought a windows 7 disc, install went fine but I've got a problem, I can't update. When ever I try the update windows it just keeps checking for updates, the OS is Windows 7 Premium 64bit SP1. I've tried updating the update agent. Tried...

Me again, I have a new Win7 Pro machine. It appears it's only updated to SP-1. Yesterday I asked it to check for updates. It returned 'Checking for Updates'. It was still checking for updates when I went to bed with no result. Other machines would come back with the number and type of...

I hate Windows 10 updating and restarting machines automatically, although in "advanced options" I have selected "notify to schedule restart". Is there a way to stop this?

I had the exciting "Video displayed stopped and has recovered" happening since upgrading to Windows 10. I uninstalled that, went to the ASUS site and downloaded the one dated July of 2014. After doing that, the annoying message of the Video display stopping and recovering stopped. Then today, I...

Assume I enabled auto-update resp. search manually for updates of my 64bit Win 7 Pro system. How can I exclude certain updates (e.g. KB3035583 as one example) forever from being installed? Is there an exclusion list file which is accepted by built-in Windows Update Service? Peter

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One of the updates for my nice old Acer One (High Definition Audio) does not install. As we can't select updates, we simply have to install them all, that nasty failing update appears in all subsequent series of updates, which causes them all to fail. I think we really should have the...

After installing Ag. 12th updates, my View Installed Updates window shows only Aug 12th items. All the previous updates are gone. Is that normal ? Correction I should say...... " my view update history shows only Aug 12th items."

I would like to know if there is a way to stop being offered specific Windows updates that do not apply to my personal usage. I use the process where I am notifies if there are updates available and I chose which I desire. For example: Bing Bar 7.2 (KB2673774) Download size: 10.3 MB Update...

It was just over one year ago, May 28, 2012, to be exact, that I transitioned from running active MSRC cases and writing bulletins to my current role managing software security incidents. A lot has changed in that year - and I’ve dealt with some interesting issues during my tenure - but...

Today we revised Security Advisory 2755801 to address issues in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8. This advisory revision was released in conjunction with Adobe’s update process. Customers who have automatic updates enabled will not need to take any action because...

Today, in conjunction with Adobe’s update process, we have revised Security Advisory 2755801 to address issues in Adobe Flash Player in Internet Explorer 10. Customers who have automatic updates enabled will not need to take any action because protections will be downloaded and installed...

Hi As some of you have probably noticed I've done a lot of complaining about Google Chrome lately. It wouldn't display this page correctly for one thing, always left a large blank space at the top with nothing in it. It wouldn't open links for my mail or other sites. I tried removing and...

Windows Updates recently automatically installed two .NET 4 updates. Almost immediately my system began misbehaving: my Firefox Booksmarks toolbar disappeared along with all the bookmarks it held, the shutdown/sleep/lock/logoff button in the start menu changed selection each time the Start menu...

New to the forum & new to w7.....sorry if the topic has been covered, but I could not find any commentary on it. 1st, updates are set to notify & not auto install.....if I don't want to install an update, how do I remove it from the list & is there a way to permanently reject that & similar...

Nick Torkington, Security Architect with Microsoft Services, answers the most common security concerns CxOs and other business decision-makers have when evaluating the Microsoft platform to build a private Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud. This video covers: · Building a secure...

Hello, My windows updater is seems to be not working because whenever it tries to install updates on my computer is just goes to installing update 1 of 4 for about 8 hours and then i just turn it off. When i open windows updater it says i have 20 updates and 4 optional updates. I have recently...

Windows update is misreading a USB 3.0 driver as Accusys Storage. I installed it by mistake and it disabled the USB 3.0 ports. How can I instruct Windows Update to no longer suggest this update. Thanks