RE: [PCTECH] Microsoft Update Woes...

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Try searching the MS with Google.   Google seems to know where Microsoft's
stuff is better than Microsoft does.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [SMTP:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:59 AM
> To:   PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject:      [PCTECH] Microsoft Update Woes...
> 
> 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
> 
>  
> 
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