XP Pro and upgates

[GrumpyOne]

Being a newbie to this set of forums and cause Dashken was so nice elsewhere, thought I'ld keep going.

Got a question on XP Pro and it's monthly menop..., I mean, updates. I am a firm follower of staying up to date, but this is getting to be a job every month with 4 PCs in the house.

I have always ran the update manually, then update each one separately because I had a bad experience many moons ago trying to run several at once. Is this newer v6 updater any better?

Or, put more simply, can I leave all the updates checked and update all at once;
or should I continue one at a time?

Maybe it was the fact some require a reboot and others don't. Guess it's a mstery to me.

Second option would leave the girls to update their own, but Dad is still a little protective

Any guidance is very welcome and appreciated

[Chai]

I don't seem to have any issues with Automatic Updates, I think it's more convinient than going to the Windows Update.

[Falcone]

Been using it since day one....only lately revert to mannual selecting which to be updated so that a certain genuine *ahem thing is not installed

[GrumpyOne]

Guess it's never a mystery any longer about updates, so I just do it manually. Maybe it's the fact I like to control who's doing what and and where from my PC.

Too many critters on the loose

I guess now that I think of it, I assume when you have your system set up for auto everything that it would install all 9-11 updates in one swoop.

Maybe MS is getting better with their updates...

now that we get more every month

[djspinnet]

Originally Posted by GrumpyOne

now that we get more every month

I'm curious.. how many updates does MS roll out each month?

[GrumpyOne]

Originally Posted by djspinnet

I'm curious.. how many updates does MS roll out each month?

Had 9 for the month of Aug, and this doesn't include the 2 Office updates this month. Can't find the list for July, but June was 8 for XP and 3 for Office.

Now I'm curious...what OS are you using that you seem to be unaware of the MS updates

[aKho]

Originally Posted by Falcone

Been using it since day one....only lately revert to mannual selecting which to be updated so that a certain genuine *ahem thing is not installed

there is a fix for that
and your probably missing some updates if you don't have that installed by now.

[djspinnet]

Originally Posted by GrumpyOne

Now I'm curious...what OS are you using that you seem to be unaware of the MS updates

Mac OS X primarily, and a mix of different flavours of Unix/Linux to taste... and Windows once in a blue moon (say, about 5 times a year?)

[Chai]

Originally Posted by GrumpyOne

Had 9 for the month of Aug, and this doesn't include the 2 Office updates this month. Can't find the list for July, but June was 8 for XP and 3 for Office.

Now I'm curious...what OS are you using that you seem to be unaware of the MS updates

There's a rollout every month second Tuesday of the month (I think), unless it's extremely critical.

[GrumpyOne]

Originally Posted by Chai

There's a rollout every month second Tuesday of the month (I think), unless it's extremely critical.

I usually set my update clock to the 3rd Tues of the month

This way I can watch the success of each month's updates and try to avoid any that go astray

Sorta like taco Tues, only we are dealing with critical updates