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Windows Update downloading after install
I seem to have an issue that is the reverse of what most people experience. I have seen this before in Windows Vista too. Here in South Africa bandwidth is expensive, so most of you guys overseas won't have noticed this probably:
I asked Windows 7 to 'check for updates' and it reported a KB971092 which is an update to Visual Studio 2008 installed on my PC. I saw that the KB was 350MB so instead of letting Windows Update download it for me, I decided to download it from the Microsoft Download Centre, so I could keep it in case I reinstalled my PC and wanted to use it again without downloading it over and over again, 350MB being huge.
The KB downloading fine and installed fine. It appears in the 'Installed Updates' window. After going online again, I used the 'check for updates' again, and the KB disappeared from the list of items I still needed to download. So far so good.
But my connection kept on being very busy, downloading heavily from the internet. I installed NetLimiter to check what application was so busy downloading, and an IP was returned to me, it being Microsoft's Windows Update server's IP. No other application was doing anything on the net, just Windows Update STILL downloading KB971092! I am sure what will happen is, it will download all 350MB again and only then check and see it is installed, and then ignore it, but this is wasting valuable bandwidth!
Is there a way that I can check which updates are currently being downloading in some folder or log somewhere or even in the registry, or is there a way I can stop or delete the entry that is telling Windows to still get this update?
I have seen this before in Vista and even XP, Windows Update sees and logs that an update is needed, then when you install it manually, the Update application STILL finishes it's download, even if it doesn't USE the download afterwards.
Any help will be greatful!