Re: How do you choose which upgrades? Win7

From	felix <me@nothere.invalid>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: How do you choose which upgrades? Win7
Date	2016-07-22 11:04 +1000
Message-ID	<dvd9q6FeforU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 22-July-2016 11:00 AM, felix wrote:
> On 22-July-2016 12:52 AM, news16 wrote:
>> It has been ages(Win2K) since I've had a MS PC and I've recently built a
>> new Win7 PC and I want to keep it that way(aka no win10)
>> Trouble is I can not workout how to tick off individual updates.
>> Can anyone help with where and how?‮
>> I've successfully stopped the auto-updates and asked it to download in
>> the background but not install. Except it didn't the first time and I 
>> had
>> about ~90 updates downloaded and installed.
>>
>> Now it keeps asking for more downloads. Since I didn't get to pre-select
>> last lot, I haven't said yes.
>>
>>
>
> select 'windows update' from the 'start' menue click 'show all 
> available updates' then tick the ones you want to update. simplez! 
> (squeak!) also change the update setting to 'check for updates but let 
> me decide whether to download and install them' then no updates will 
> not be automatically downloaded. all update/download settings can be 
> accessed from the control panel "windows update' section. just be 
> careful not to tick the windows 10 update which may be included by 
> default. rest assured, M$ will try to trick you into installing win10
>
>

p.s. the windows10 upgrade is listed under 'optional updates', so it's 
not noticeable and is ticked by default. I just checked.

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How do you choose which upgrades? Win7 news16 <news16@woa.com.au> - 2016-07-21 14:52 +0000
  Re: How do you choose which upgrades? Win7 Jeßus <j@j.j> - 2016-07-22 08:16 +1000
  Re: How do you choose which upgrades? Win7 "SG1" <lost@the.races.com> - 2016-07-22 08:28 +1000
  Re: How do you choose which upgrades? Win7 felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-07-22 11:00 +1000
    Re: How do you choose which upgrades? Win7 felix <me@nothere.invalid> - 2016-07-22 11:04 +1000
  Re: How do you choose which upgrades? Win7 Colin Horsley <horsley-spam@westnet.com.au> - 2016-07-22 12:54 +1000

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