Acer update manager stopped working??

bargain_hunter77

I recently bought the acer aspire 5742 laptop - today it said 'update manager has stopped working' - what has happened??? how do i fix this??.........what if it isn't fixed - will my laptop get ruined without the update manager working??

i'm a novice regarding laptops so very basic 'fixes' please!!XX

thank you,

free4440273

If it's anything like my HP update manager, then it's completely unnecessary // just ensure actual Windows Updates are working //

bargain_hunter77

any one else with an acer experienced this problem??? if so what did you do to fix it??

thanks for any repliesX

macman

As already advised, just make sure that Windows Updates is running and set to the default (to automatically download and install updates). That's all you need.

closed

fix it by disabling it from running at startup using msconfig

spakkker

You will be better off the less rubbish is running in the background/at startup