You are correct, I look into this deeper this morning and found the same results. It doesn't matter if it is running or not. It can be running and set to manual, WindowsUpdate will still fail.
Therefore you have to set the service to autotmaic for WindowsUpdate to work. It is Microsoft's attempt to force all users to have automatic updates on by default. This is fine for your everyday normal at home user but it is a pain for corporations. People that use SUS need it anyways, so it isn't a big deal. But we use SMS and I had the service all to save resources. It was a service that was going to never work correctly anyways (due to corporate proxy). Therefore to make company turn on a unneeded service after telling everyone to turn off all unneeded services for security is pretty lame. Once again, I see a need to have a separate OS base for corporations and home customers. But I am glad to see the death of the Win9x kernel. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Schaefer Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Windows Update It looks like windows update requires Automated Updates to be set to automatic startup, but does not require the process to actually be running... So the statement that they are "required" is obviously false. As a work around, I can manually change the startup status, do the windows update, then change the startup status back to manual. Seriously annoying, but doable. < _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
