[PCTECH] Microsoft Update Woes...

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

 

Was at a remote site earlier this week and had a W2K PC that I was moving. I
happened to run Windows Update and got a butt load of updates listed. The
bandwidth at our remote sites is 64K an downloading most of the updates
KILLS the circuit. So I copied the list from the browser and pasted it into
Word and printed it out, brought it back here (where we have a full T1 out
to the internet) and started downloading these update to burn to a CD.

 

I was/am on Microsoft's update website and searching ALL with a # from this
list I have and it was going pretty well and then from time to time I get:

 

No downloads were found that matched your search criteria. Try searching
again with different criteria, or look for downloads using the category
links at left.

 

So GREAT - the PC that Windows Update was run on can find it, but manually
hitting the Windows Update site can't find them.

 

I've emailed MS but was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and
how you handle updates if you are in a similar situation to mine ?

 

And I also fear that some of these updates only download a part of the fix
and then go back up to MS and get the rest. Seems like I remember it doing
that here with the last big IE update.

 

Thanks,

 

Chuck