Is there a diff between the basic ideas of Auto Updates between XP and
Vista?
This morning I logged on around 9AM and I suppose this was too early
for the updates. I stayed on about an hour.

I booted again at 7PM and have been on for 15 minutes, but the Windows
Updates dialog still says it last checked for updates at 9 AM.
Shouldn't it have checked again at 7PM?

It's set for notify before loading/installing updates, if that
matters.

Richard Fangnail <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote:
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>Is there a diff between the basic ideas of Auto Updates between XP and
>Vista?
>This morning I logged on around 9AM and I suppose this was too early
>for the updates. I stayed on about an hour.
>
>I booted again at 7PM and have been on for 15 minutes, but the Windows
>Updates dialog still says it last checked for updates at 9 AM.
>Shouldn't it have checked again at 7PM?
>
>It's set for notify before loading/installing updates, if that
>matters.[/color]

When you KNOW that updates have been released (normally on the second
Tuesday of every month) you can force it.

Left column, "Check for updates"

I believe the default is 22 hours. That is, auto update checks for updates
every 22 hours.

"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote in message
news:3df4393c-ce57-4dda-a452-5da0176bf1c0@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Is there a diff between the basic ideas of Auto Updates between XP and
> Vista?
> This morning I logged on around 9AM and I suppose this was too early
> for the updates. I stayed on about an hour.
>
> I booted again at 7PM and have been on for 15 minutes, but the Windows
> Updates dialog still says it last checked for updates at 9 AM.
> Shouldn't it have checked again at 7PM?
>
> It's set for notify before loading/installing updates, if that
> matters.[/color]