Windows Updates : KB2729449 & KB2737019

[Mid]

Anyone else having trouble getting these latest updates to install ?

what is the fix ?

[Necron99]

what is the fix ?

Another update?

I they are win 7 and came out a few days ago they worked for me.

[Mid]

XP and not working thus the thread .

[Mr Lick]

Installed both updates on my win 7 ok.


Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB2729449)

[Sucubus]

Try downloading them manually.

[Rural Surin]

Installed both updates on my win 7 ok.


Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB2729449)

Aren't Windows updates largely automatic without approval on Windows 7?

I believe this is not the case pertaining to XP and Vista.

Perhaps, I'm wrong.
Correct me please.

[chassamui]

Correct me please.

Don't have enough snopake to correct all your errors.

[Mid]

well the fix was to tell xp not to bother me about these particular updates again .

[Butterfly]

jesus, can't you turn off Automatic Update and the warnings that go with it ? very easy in WinXP. Another story in Win7 though.

[Mid]

indeed you can , though why you would want to escapes me .

[Neo]

Another story in Win7 though.

How do you know?

You repeatedly bleat on about how you don't have and won't ever have Win7.. yet you seem to know so much about it.

It's very easy to turn off automatic updates, takes five clicks or so, start>all programs>windows updates>..

why would you want to though..?

[Necron99]

Isn't this the year that MS is ceasing support and patches for XP anyway?

[Neo]

They have said it previously, no doubt in the hope that users will have rushed into buying Vista or Win7, but that never happened.

But far the largest group of XP users are businesses that never felt the need or couldn't afford the cost of an upgrade and to pull the plug on them would be disastrous, not only for the millions of businesses but also for Microsofts image.

Even if they did pull the plug I have no doubt that a third party community would take ownership, such as with other open source systems, it's possible even that Microsoft would sell the license.

[slackula]

Even if they did pull the plug I have no doubt that a third party community would take ownership,

MS have to pull the plug at some point if they want 7 or 8 to take off, they seem to have painted themselves into a bit of a corner though.

such as with other open source systems, it's possible even that Microsoft would sell the license.

If MS did sell the license they'd surely be opening themselves up to people finding out that there's stuff in the kernel (networking stuff comes to mind because they were crap at that) that is open source. If that happened then anything derived from that would also be open source according to the GPL so they could theoretically be forced to open source the 7 & 8 kernels too!

That would be funny, but it's not going to happen imho.

[Butterfly]

Even if they did pull the plug I have no doubt that a third party community would take ownership, such as with other open source systems, it's possible even that Microsoft would sell the license.

very unlikely to happen, would become a precedent, can't let that happen

[Butterfly]

That would be funny, but it's not going to happen imho.

Remember in early 2000 when Bill Gates was announcing to the world that he would open Windows source code to the public so MS could be inline with everyone else

big PR stunt, never happened, it happened after reports of hacking at MS HQ and Windows source code being stolen and how it could be exploited to create new trojans