Windows Automatic Update

And thank you for re-posting that you have a satisfactory solution
to the query you originally posted.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.



"Margaret Bartley" <may04_NOTTHIS.TakeThisOut@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you! You are wonderful
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> - signed (an interested lurker)
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> "Tim Meddick" <timmeddick.TakeThisOut@gawab.com> wrote in message
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>> Janet,
>> I'm happy to say that I very much think that I've found the [command-line]
>> solution.
>>
>> Either put the following into a batch script or create a shortcut out of the
>> following (just 'copy and paste' the text into the "Target" box of a new shortcut)
>> :
>>
>>
>> c:\windows\system32\wuauclt.exe /detectnow
>>
>>
>> ...this starts WU in the background and installs updates silently (at reboot) and
>> is the same process that "Automatic Updates" (when / if scheduled) starts.
>>
>> You will have to decide when and how you implement this shortcut.
>>
>> Hope this helps you.
>>
>> ==
>>
>> Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Janetb" <Janetb.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:06631C3F-25AD-4410-B58D-8BE8772D3A8B@microsoft.com...
>>> Many thanks for your help....See my comments below interspersed with your text:
>>>
>>> "Tim Meddick" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Janet,
>>>> I was well aware of what you kept on asking, a way to start the
>>>> Update
>>>> Search (i.e. so that the little yellow icon is in the system tray
>>>> showing that it's looking for any updates) from the command line (i.e.
>>>> so that you can create a shortcut to instigate it "at will").
>>>
>>> Yes, but I do hope to be able to do it from shortcut icon(s) on the desktop,
>>> as I do not know how to use command lines...Also, it's quicker .......
>>>
>>>> Or, the other thing you were wanting, is if this process could be
>>>> automatically started when the PC was idle for a time.
>>> > However, I repeat; there's no [native] way to do any of this in Windows
>>>> XP (that I know of at least).
>>>
>>> I guess I was hoping SOMEONE out there might know of a way to do this
>>> unconventional thing .......I have discovered amazing tricks that people
>>> have come up with to do very helpful things...!
>>>
>>>> ALL you can do is set updates to do it's search on a specified day (or
>>>> every day) and at a specified time.
>>>>
>>>> OR you can have 'Automatic Updates' turned off AND Updates alert you so
>>>> that you can manually install them, or just alert you, or turn it off
>>>> completely.
>>>
>>> When you say "Updates alert", do you mean the third option in the Automatic
>>> Updates settings options window (= "Notify me but don't automatically
>>> download or install them") or were you referring to somewhere else? I ask
>>> because you canNOT choose this option AND "Turn off Automatic Updates" as you
>>> seem to suggest--you can only choose one or the other.....In any case, we
>>> seem to understand each other .......
>>>
>>>> But I am looking into this further, as I too enjoy having more control
>>>> over what Windows does and am convinced that I can find out how to start
>>>> the background search for updates from the command-line.
>>>>
>>>> I'll get back to you as soon as I can when I find out about this...
>>>
>>>
>>> Like I said, I am totally ignorant regarding command lines .......I
>>> assumed that initiating the update search was a matter of simply activating
>>> relevant .exe's (??), which one can always do by shortcut....Looking forward
>>> to hearing from you!
>>>
>>> Janet
>>>
>>>
>>>
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