Microsoft has released its latest Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification ready for this month’s Patch Tuesday.This month sees 12 new patches including 7 critical fixes for Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and Media Player.
A further 5 rated important cover flaws in Windows, Outlook Express and Windows Messenger.
All the updates will be available via the Windows Update.
It’s a busy month for Microsoft on the patch front, over each of the last 2 Patch Tuesdays there was only one patch rated critical.
I had to cancel Windows Update just yesterday on my mother's system. It was just taking too long, and using too many resources.
Her system (1 GHz P3) basically becomes unusable for an hour when doing update scans.
I had to cancel Windows Update just yesterday on my mother's system. It was just taking too long, and using too many resources.
Her system (1 GHz P3) basically becomes unusable for an hour when doing update scans.
Give AutoPatcher a try
I had to cancel Windows Update just yesterday on my mother's system. It was just taking too long, and using too many resources.
Her system (1 GHz P3) basically becomes unusable for an hour when doing update scans.
An hour? That might be a pretty big problem you got there. My other computer has a 750 mhz AMD processor, and 128mb of RAM and it doesn't take that much time. If you ask me I doubt the processors performance has anything to do with it. When I had problems with windows update being slow it was always about a faulty hard drive or some sort of virus. You might want to look into that.
I had to cancel Windows Update just yesterday on my mother's system. It was just taking too long, and using too many resources.
Her system (1 GHz P3) basically becomes unusable for an hour when doing update scans.
Don't have Office 2003 on that rig, do you? Known issues with that, and I have seen it take that long then.
Yeah, baby!! Super Tuesday!!
I had to cancel Windows Update just yesterday on my mother's system. It was just taking too long, and using too many resources.
Her system (1 GHz P3) basically becomes unusable for an hour when doing update scans.
Her system is waaay too old and shouldn't be running Vista. XP?
I had to cancel Windows Update just yesterday on my mother's system. It was just taking too long, and using too many resources.
Her system (1 GHz P3) basically becomes unusable for an hour when doing update scans.
Her system is waaay too old and shouldn't be running Vista. XP?
Who said anything about Vista?
I had to cancel Windows Update just yesterday on my mother's system. It was just taking too long, and using too many resources.
Her system (1 GHz P3) basically becomes unusable for an hour when doing update scans.
I understand your frustration but seriously, a system like that is getting a bit outdated. Maybe getting a E2xxx/E4xxx processor with min 2gb ram and a basic P35 chipset motherboard will solve a lot of those frustrations
Anyway, WU is lightning fast on my system (using Vista Ultimate x64). Hope all you people get rid of this problem soon.
I had to cancel Windows Update just yesterday on my mother's system. It was just taking too long, and using too many resources.
Her system (1 GHz P3) basically becomes unusable for an hour when doing update scans.
It matters not what system it is. WU sometimes just fails. My workstation doesn't do WU; I get 100%CPU and an eternal anigif. So I use c't update instead. Possibly a reinstall might correct it but I simply can't be bothered to take a day out to reconfigure everything.
WU works like a charm (and quickly) on my home rig running XP, 2K3 or Vista. It's just one of those things.
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