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December 24th, 2003 23:00
Dell Support Alerts: Update all these?
Hi, sorry for the dupe in the First Time Users Forum:
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So after having my 4600 for about a week or so, I'm finally able to get into the nitty gritty after all the exploration.
I signed up for the Dell Support Alerts, which looks like an awesome service.
Of course, I selected the 'notify me of any and prompt me to install' check box.
Today, I got an alert and it had about 30 updates, including 'critikal updates' and 'security updates'.
Do I need to download all of these updates??? It'll take about 9 days, IMO.
Respond here or email me direct at bogus301@yahoo.com. I won't place you on any mailing lists, I promise.
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December 25th, 2003 01:00
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December 28th, 2003 02:00
Well, to follow up on this issue, I bit the bullet and managed to convince myself that if I needed to trust anyone, it'll have to be Microsoft. (yeah yeah, save it).
So I Start/Windows Update/Scan
And download and installed all 30 or so odd updates, patches, and security packets. Instead of doing it all at once, I broke it down by logic, downloaded, installed, and restarted probably about 4 or 5 times. Hoping the cold restarts would assist in installing these more 'fully'.
Any you know what? No errors. No lags. No stoppage. Everything went perfect.
I plan to update this thread if any errors or conflicts occur.
ike