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Sorry OvenMaster, I thought you meant upgrading.
I've turned off WU now anyway. Not because the updates particularly worry me, I just avoid the ones I don't feel are necessary, but because of the way Windows update fails to work a lot of the time lately. I just manually download the security updates and skip the rest, unless it's designed to fix crashes, problems. Most of the recommended updates of late don't appear to be adding anything of benefit.
My system has been running fine and I have no problem spending 10 minutes a month downloading and installing the security updates manually.
Yep looks like the only place to get them soon enough :)
Microsoft change location of some security updates May Patch Tuesday
I just hope they don't stop manual updates altogether! I think that's highly unlikely though. While I use WU in my VM's (when it works) for testing, I don't use it on my main systems.
So manual update files are a big help for me at the moment.
[/QUOTE]Therefore MS will stop them.[/QUOTE]
you say that with a lack of faith? Oh wait... Yeah this is MS we're talking about!
Buggered up your quote there! Oops!
I was considering doing this a few months ago, but after much thought I decided that there isn't much point me doing that really. By the time (if ever) I do decide to upgrade, I'll have upgraded to new system/hardware by then. I'm happy just to buy a boxed product I can transfer whenever I like, if that's the case.