dvdWarrior Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Okay, I'm not the most computer-smart feller around, there's plenty of things I don't know... But this seems a little bit questionable to me... ALL DAY LONG I've been getting Microsoft Automatic Updates. There was a big one this morning with several updates included in it. I was kind of expecting that one, it was about time for it. But as soon as I let it do it's thing, there was another waiting in the wings. Since, then, every time I've logged on to my computer there's been one waiting. Install, automatic restart. Bring up the computer. Automatic update. Install, automatic restart. It's played hell with my attempts at TEW and OOTP games today. Judging by the file names, they all seem to be the same thing as well. I've never had this many updates in one day before. What gives? Is this normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moon_lit_tears Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 It sounds like the update is not fully installing. Go to your add/remove files. Delete the latest updates and try to redo the update. Also go directly to microsofts website and do them from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steesh07 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Windows updates haven't been installing on my PC either, can't seem to stop them trying either. Rubbish Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackKnifed72 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Might be a problem with your computer and/or ISP. I got the most recent Windows 7 update Wednesday Night, it installed fine and hasn't loaded a new one since then. Don't know if it matters, but I manually restarted my computer from the startup menu rather than from the pop up prompt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad5226 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 On some of the bigger downloads it sometimes needs to download a certain program reboot and then download a corrisponding program that needed the first one to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallbanger Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Occasionally an update will install, but Windows Update doesn't seem to register that the update completed. It will then present the same update for install. This happened to me today with the "Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (KB253842)". View your update history to make sure that the update status = Successful. If Windows Update still presents the same update to you, you're probably OK hiding the update so you don't get pinged with it over and over. Naturally if the update status = Failed, something else is going on and you may need to dig a little further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdWarrior Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 Occasionally an update will install, but Windows Update doesn't seem to register that the update completed. It will then present the same update for install. This happened to me today with the "Security Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package (KB253842)". View your update history to make sure that the update status = Successful. If Windows Update still presents the same update to you, you're probably OK hiding the update so you don't get pinged with it over and over. Naturally if the update status = Failed, something else is going on and you may need to dig a little further. That's the very one I was having the issue with, (and it was in fact successful, ). Seems it worked itself out this morning... not long after I posted this thread as a matter of fact. I may have jumped the gun a little bit, I've been known to be impatient. Anywho, it seems everything's OK now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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