I simply checked off “Notify but do not download” on the updates options.
Then when notified of new updates being available, would select XP security stuff and their malware program updates. Ignored IE updates as I never used it, had removed IE long before.
Always preferred picking and choosing which updates to download, as stuff for Office and IE did not apply. Always worked well. Some Net 3.5 thing was the only one that would download but refuse to install.
Sure, I always did that too.
> Then when notified of new updates being available, would select XP security stuff and their malware program updates. Ignored IE updates as I never used it, had removed IE long before. Always preferred picking and choosing which updates to download, as stuff for Office and IE did not apply. Always worked well. Some Net 3.5 thing was the only one that would download but refuse to install.
Fair enough, though it's interesting, usually you don't get Office notifications unless you have Office installed, in which case why would you not want the Office updates? They usually fixed problems.
The .NET updates were always huge and I sometimes had trouble with those not installing too.