The updates are fixing bugs and security holes.
On 04/14/2015 04:27 PM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Thanks to you also.
Those Windows updates always make me twitchy. I mean, what are the
updates doing exactly? Do they release that information for the
curious or must we take it all on trust?
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
With regard to question one, this is why I love Linux! I said that
just to piss off Alex. But if you are getting a new laptop it's likely
to have Windows 8.1 unless you have specifically ordered one with
Windows 7 on it. Theoretically if you bought one with 7 then it should
be a newer build and thus updated and will only need ones since the
version of 7 was built. Same for Windows 8.1.
And as rich as Microsoft is you'd think they'd have faster update
servers. Many of the updates are less than 50 MB and many much, much
smaller than that.
On 04/14/2015 03:39 PM, j_alexander_stanley@...
<mailto:j_alexander_stanley@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
With regard to the second question, you can go ahead and delete
the update files in your download folder after you've run the
updates.
Dunno what to say about the first question, because I buy new
computers seldom enough that I'm always getting a newer version
of Windows when I do buy one. But, when I wipe a system and
reload Windows, there's always an assload of Windows updates to run.
---In [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, <s3raphita@...>
<mailto:s3raphita@...> wrote :
I am illiterate as regards modern technology (and sneakily proud
of the fact - the way your granny affected ignorance of the
Beatles!).
Can someone answer two simple questions I have?
Periodically, I get messages which instruct me not to turn off my
laptop as Windows is "installing updates". So far, so simple. My
query is: given that I've now had a significant, large number of
updates on my current laptop, does this mean that if I were to
buy a brand-new laptop I'd have to go through the same rigmarole
of installing those very same updates all over again - or does
the uploader up there in Cloud cuckooland simply update one
kick-arse mega-program that includes all the revisions since
Windows 7 (or what-have-you) was originally installed on the
computer I'm buying?
The other question I have is this: when I get updates for other
programs (Java say) which I download to my Download folder (duh!)
and I then run the download program to get the update up and
running, can I then delete the original downloaded file sitting
in my Download folder as it is no longer needed - or would that
have catastrophic consequences?
Is that at all clear? Let me know if you need clarification!
Thanks in advance.
