Updates if no internet connection

I have a similar issue. I had to disbale all my Automatic Updates because
something in them was causing me to be unable to connect to the internet.
Dell told me to do a system restore, so every day I had to restore to 8/6/08
in order to be able to connect to the internet. If not, I would always get a
message saying there was no internet connection even though my broadband was
working fine and diagnostics recognized that it was strong & active.

It seems like these updates should be on though!

Can anyone help with this?
--
Alex


"NotVeryTechie" wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I do not have an internet connection, I am writing this from a friend's
> computer. I have a Toshiba laptop. I have managed to download SP1 to a pen
> drive and was thinking of installing this on my laptop, but now I am worried
> because I don't know if this will cause problems (some have been reported
> with SP1).
>
> What do you do if you don't have an internet connection? Just never get your
> windows updated?

Yes, someone can help if you tell us which updates installed on 8/6.
Open the WindowsUpdate.log, located in WINDOWS, and find the entries for
8/6. Post back with them here, Alex.

EX:
008-08-20 10:02:39:377 980 948 Report REPORT EVENT:
{F0CA9132-3F5F-463A-B398-6C2228A11E8E} 2008-08-20
10:02:25:848-0700 1 189 102
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} 0 0 AutomaticUpdates Success
Content Install Installation Ready: The following updates are downloaded
and ready for installation. To install the updates, an administrator
should log on to this computer and Windows will prompt with further
instructions: - Definition Update for Windows Defender - KB915597
(Definition 1.41.365.0)

It appears that the updates that attempted to install on 8/6 were
released either the second or fourth Tuesday of July. The question is,
why were they not detected prior to then or were they declined by you,
but not Hidden ?

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2008]
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Alex wrote:

> I have a similar issue. I had to disbale all my Automatic Updates because
> something in them was causing me to be unable to connect to the internet.
> Dell told me to do a system restore, so every day I had to restore to 8/6/08
> in order to be able to connect to the internet. If not, I would always get a
> message saying there was no internet connection even though my broadband was
> working fine and diagnostics recognized that it was strong & active.
>
> It seems like these updates should be on though!
>
> Can anyone help with this?