Microsoft updates near every day!

taxi97w

This is becoming really tedious for me. I like to check what updates I'm downloading so I can decide for myself what's on my computer as I don't have the officesuite and certain other updates aren't relevant, but this is getting almost everyday now. I've got Win7on a little Acer notebook.

Does any one have the same hassle, and how do you deal with it?

Another OS seems a drastic measure unless someone can convince me otherwise.

fiddiwebb

Are you sure the updates are being installed?

Can't see updates being every day?

penrhyn

Windows 7 updates never more than once a week, usually on a Wednesday.
If you don't like automatic updates turn them off (not recommended)

John_Gray

The standard update frequency of Windows updates is the second Tuesday of the month, which turns out to be the following Wednesday or even Thursday in the UK. Urgent ones can come along at any time, but that is comparatively rare.

Far more annoying, to me at least, is the frequency of updates of Flash Player and Adobe Reader, together with the less-frequent Java RTE...

fiddiwebb

Far more annoying, to me at least, is the frequency of updates of Flash Player and Adobe Reader, together with the less-frequent Java RTE...

Agreed on that John, in fact ditched Adobe reader after the last fiasco of trying to update it and use Foxit now.

davester

I have had updates the last 2 days but nothing major just defender definition updates

LeeSouthEast

Same. Windows Defender updates every day or two days, but that's about it.

[Deleted User]

taxi97w wrote: »

Another OS seems a drastic measure unless someone can convince me otherwise.

You'll get equally as frequent updates with whatever else you chose, so I'm not really sure what you're expecting..

velocetteman

Since you are doing your updates manually and presumably rejecting some, it is important to cancel them permanently or they will keep coming back. Perhaps this is what is happening?

jayme1

you only get suggested updates that are relevent (ie you must have office if it wants you to update it (it probably cane with the computer as a trial), check your add/remove programs and if you have it uninstall it), but you can hide updates by right clicking them.

BUT remember that updates are VERY important last years conficker virus that attacked millions and millions of computers actually used an exploit that was already patched by microsoft the month before the virus was released.

taxi97w

jayme1 wrote: »

you only get suggested updates that are relevent (ie you must have office if it wants you to update it (it probably cane with the computer as a trial), check your add/remove programs and if you have it uninstall it), but you can hide updates by right clicking them.

BUT remember that updates are VERY important last years conficker virus that attacked millions and millions of computers actually used an exploit that was already patched by microsoft the month before the virus was released.

The office suite was a trial, that's why I got rid of it (had to use a program called 'get rid of officesuite' or something like that-it just wouldn't uninstall itself) and installed openoffice, but I still get updates for it ms office. I hide the ones I don't install, but new ones arrive almost everyday still, certainly not once a week as previously mention by someone. I must be doing something right, cause it runs like a dream, it's just these damned pesky updates.:(