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   On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:39:59 -0400, Spuds   
    wrote:   
      
      
   >>>Not an optimal solution if the user was on a dialup connection.  Downloading   
   >>>all the patches since SP2 takes eons.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>True, but, we're talking about the poster doing it now,   
   >>plus, later if the owner only has dial-up, that IS the   
   >>method that'll have to be used unless you're suggesting they   
   >>bring the system back to the OP every time MS releases   
   >>another patch??   
   >   
   >I think the original context was for a tech to reconfigure a client's machine.   
   >You wouldn't want to send the client away with the OS needing patches.  I   
   >think it's a given that the client is responsible for updates after the fact.   
   >   
   >Not sure why you'd conclude the user would have to bring the machine back.   
   >It's infinitely easier installing patches via dialup, as they come out, rather   
   >than several hundred at a shot.   
      
      
   I'd conclude it because you wrote above "Not an optimal   
   solution if the user was on a dialup connection."   
      
   " Downloading all the patches since SP2 takes eons."   
      
      
   Here's how it'd play out:   
      
   OP enabled automatic updates.  They immediately start   
   downloading THEN, at that time.  OP comes back to system,   
   which has updated itself, reboots and tests that it works   
   ok.  System then has automatic updates enabled and that   
   stays enabled when owner takes it home.   
      
   It is never a situation where, as you suggested, anything   
   would take eons because the system has already begun   
   updating itself right after the feature is enabled... system   
   doesn't know where it's home is and wait till it gets "home"   
   to do that.   
      
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