Talk:Windows Update

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--222.67.212.133 (talk) 08:13, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red links in the ''See also'' section are based on the following... 

message: I know in most of the OS's it stores it to the C:\Windows\ directory if that is the installation directory of Windows, but I dont seem to find where it stores those downloaded files in Windows 7. Any clues to where it may be storing those in Windows 7?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.253.2.17 (talk) 19:05, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For Windows XP (all variants as far as I know), it is located in C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download. Although most updates are universal, there are many that are machine specific. I have compared a laptop and a desktop to verify this.--Imwithid (talk) 06:43, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where does Windows Update download its files to for each OS (Windows 95, Windows 98, XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Vista, Windows 7 etc...) 

message: Since Windows Update first began with Windows 98, Microsoft Internet Explorer is available for Windows 95, and that also means that windowsupdate.microsoft.com is available for Windows 95. I've seen Windows 95's Windows Update? Should this be included with the article? From Me, WiiRocks566 □ 19:04, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: IIRC there was no automatic update system for Win95. You could use IE3 or IE4 to access the WindowsUpdate website, but you were on your own as to what you should download. No clear indication of importance. No indication whether you already had the update (important if your Win95 came with an OEM Service Release). Better than nothing, but sucky. Not "notable" IMHO. When I upgraded to Win98SE I got a real update service. 141.156.148.226 (talk) 16:57, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows 95? 

message: There is some (old) news about Windows Update updating itself without users permission... is it worth to include? --SF007 (talk) 14:47, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Un-authorized update 

message: The number of update users has no meaning whatsoever without knowing how many possible update users there are.   If the section is to have any value, it ought to report the number of updates and the number of CVE bugs fixed, as well as the number of bugs reported.  Guess I prefer facts over marketing spin.  Does WP have a Discloser requirement yet for contributing editors?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.122.91.95 (talk) 05:15, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statistics 

message: Hi, as you possibly know, after half-a-year of hard team work Microsoft recently managed to overcome the W10 update Intel RST problem. I've got no idea how many W10 users were unable to install updates which they paid for, but it's definitely tens of millions. Isn't it worth a mention here, in this article? == (from:) Krzysztof Leski (talk) 12:55, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intel RST problem 

message: Windows Update may wake up a computer automatically. This may happen to a laptop during transport, and cause untold damange.
* "2007-09-13 03:00:11:521 408 f4c AU The machine was woken up by Windows Update
:Great. Well, according the event logs, it ran for another 1 hour and 45 minutes or so before the battery got sufficiently low for it to go into hibernate. So, apparently, Windows Update woke my laptop, on battery, in my laptop bag to install updates. It didn’t even bother to suspend it after the fact (gee, thanks), leaving the system to keep running until either it ran out of battery or something broke due to running in a confined place with zero ventilation." http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=160
* "Enabling Windows Update Power Management to automatically wake up the system to install scheduled updates (WSUS 3.0)" http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1390-wsus-gpo-settings-for-the-real-world
* Enabling Windows Update Power Management to automatically wake up the system to install scheduled updates http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd939933%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
-96.237.4.73 (talk) 22:23, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  may wake up a computer automatically 

message: Over the weekend, Microsoft has released patches for Windows XP, XP 64-bit, Server 2003, and Windows 8 (original edition) to fix an exploit used by WannaCry, even though they have been long unsupported (Vista got the update in March before it got unsupported). Where can this be added?
166.82.255.141 (talk) 20:50, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I know. My watchlist is bristling with edits to different Windows articles reporting just this. —Codename Lisa (talk) 04:40, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent patches for unsupported systems 

message: Someone decided to vent about WU in a page that is open to the public. I decided to revert it. If you want to complain about Windows Update, do it in a private note or in some sort of forum, not on a public article. SweetFountain178 (talk) 01:11, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  About a bad edit on this article