Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Patch's
Every Once in a While Especially as Operating Systems Get Older and Older They Come Up With New Patch's Aka Updates
It is Important When Updates Come Out its A Good Thing to Install Them
When Operating Systems Get Older in Order to Keep Working right And Correctly and Speedy Fast They Need Updates to drivers and more
How to Check For updates
If you have Windows Vista and Windows 7
Go to Start than Go to Windows Update and than From there it should show the updates that are available to install
If you Have Windows XP
Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then press ENTER.
Click the Automatic Updates tab, and then click to select one of the following options. We recommend that you select the Automatic (recommended) Automatically download recommended updates for my computer and install them option.
Automatic (recommended) Automatically download recommended updates for my computer and install them
If you select this option, Windows recognizes when you are online and uses your Internet connection to find updates on the Windows Update Web site or on the Microsoft Update Web site that apply to your computer. Updates are downloaded automatically in the background, and you are not notified or interrupted during this process. An icon appears in the notification area of your taskbar when the updates are being downloaded. You can point to the icon to view the download status. When the download is complete, you receive another message in the notification area so that you can review the updates that are scheduled for installation.
Click to select the day and time for scheduled updates to download and install. You can schedule Automatic Updates for any time of day. However, your computer must be on at the scheduled time for updates to be installed.
You can choose to install the updates as soon as they are finished downloading. To do this, click the download message (or update icon), and then click Install. If you choose not to install the updates when they finish downloading, Windows starts the installation on your set schedule.
Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them
If you select this option, Windows recognizes when you are online and uses your Internet connection to automatically download updates from the Windows Update Web site or from the Microsoft Update Web site. An icon appears in the notification area of your taskbar when the updates are being downloaded. You can point to the icon to view the download status. When the download is complete, you receive another message in the notification area so that you can review the updates that are scheduled for installation.
When you want to install the downloaded update, click the message (or update icon), and then click Install to install the update.
If you do not want to install a downloaded update, click Details, and then click to clear the check box next to that update to decline it.
Notify me but don't automatically download or install them
If you select this option, Windows recognizes when you are online and uses your Internet connection to search for downloads from the Windows Update Web site or from the Microsoft Update Web site. An Automatic Updates icon and message appear in the notification area of your taskbar when new updates are available to download or to install.
Click the icon or message to view the updates. If you do not want to download a selected update, click to clear the check box next to that update to decline it. Click Start Download to download the selected updates. The Automatic Updates icon remains in the notification area of your taskbar while the updates are being downloaded. You can point to the icon to view the download status.
When the download is complete, you receive another message in the notification area stating that the updates are ready to install. Click the Automatic Updates icon or the message, and then click Install to install the updates.
Click OK.
For Windows 2000
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Automatic Updates.
Click Automatically download the updates, and install them on the schedule that I specify.
Click to select the day and time that you want to download and install updates.
When critical updates are detected, Automatic Updates automatically downloads these updates in the background while you are connected to the Internet. After the download is complete, Automatic Updates waits until the scheduled day and time to install the updates. On the scheduled day and time, all local users receive the following message that has a five minute countdown timer:
Windows is ready to begin installing the updates available for your computer.
Do you want Windows to install the updates now?
(Windows will restart your computer if no action is taken within 5:00 minutes)
If you are logged on as an administrator, when you receive this message, you can either click Yes to install the updates or click No to have Automatic Updates install the updates at the next scheduled day and time. If you do not take any action in five minutes, Windows automatically installs the updates.
Important You may have to restart your computer to complete the update installation.
Can you Set it so That it will install automatically
yes in the updates section there should be a button that will allow you to schedule times for it to install updates for you if you do that it will do it for you even if you are not on the computer
