I changed my computer's to download Windows Updates Automatically a few months ago, but I've never really trusted it.
Today my mistrust in counting on things to happen automatically was vindicated when I manually opened Windows Update to check manually for updates and promptly got a Windows Update Error 0x80070003
Windows 7 Action Centre, set to warn me if there was a problem with Automatic Updates, reported no problems.
After fixing the problem and getting Windows Updates to work again, (the standard fixes didn't work - a hotfix needed to be installed) it's now installing about ~700MB of critical updates that it just downloaded as I type.
The moral of this post?
Don't trust automatic Windows updates! In fact, don't trust Automatic anything. Use automated updating by all means, I even encourage it to all my clients, but periodically check to ensure that whatever you've set to update automatically is in fact, updating.
According to a google search, the problem I just fixed on my Win 7 Pro 64bit system has been reported occurring on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 systems during December of 2017 and January of this year. It seems to only happen on certain system configurations.
Just a heads up folks.
Today my mistrust in counting on things to happen automatically was vindicated when I manually opened Windows Update to check manually for updates and promptly got a Windows Update Error 0x80070003
Windows 7 Action Centre, set to warn me if there was a problem with Automatic Updates, reported no problems.
After fixing the problem and getting Windows Updates to work again, (the standard fixes didn't work - a hotfix needed to be installed) it's now installing about ~700MB of critical updates that it just downloaded as I type.
The moral of this post?
Don't trust automatic Windows updates! In fact, don't trust Automatic anything. Use automated updating by all means, I even encourage it to all my clients, but periodically check to ensure that whatever you've set to update automatically is in fact, updating.
According to a google search, the problem I just fixed on my Win 7 Pro 64bit system has been reported occurring on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 systems during December of 2017 and January of this year. It seems to only happen on certain system configurations.
Just a heads up folks.
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Further to my last post, I just rebooted after 7 updates were installed, ran Windows Update again just now and it's now downloading another critical 231MB security roll-up update to install. As I said before..
Use Automatically Install Windows Updates by all means. Most times it works. But you "should" periodically just run Windows Update manually to make sure it's doing what it's supposed to be doing.
Cheers...
Use Automatically Install Windows Updates by all means. Most times it works. But you "should" periodically just run Windows Update manually to make sure it's doing what it's supposed to be doing.
Cheers...
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Good post and your conclusions are correct for certain devices. My own and client Lenovo computers all updated properly. My own Windows 7 virtual machine (VMware BIOS and drivers) update properly as well.
Thank you for posting this.
Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for your comments John. For reference of any doubters, here is how my Windows Update Settings were (and continue to be) set on my Win 7 Pro 64 Bit System.
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