• When did “Download updates but let me choose” change?

    Posted on February 15, 2016 at 09:35 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Interesting question from EG. I haven’t been following along closely enough to give him a definitive answer. Do any of you know when (or even if) it has changed? Remember that I recommend “Notify but don’t download.” I’ve been running my Win 8.1, Vista and Win 7 (even XP) machines with that setting for a decade or two…

    When did the option to “Download updates but let me choose whether to install them” change to install everything that’s pre-checked when you restart or shut down your computer?

    I thought a family member had changed her settings to automatic when she called me last Wednesday about having to wait for the updates to get done installing before she could shut her computer down… and then another family member called me the following day experiencing the same problem. I accessed both of their computers over the weekend (remotely) and changed the setting to “Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them”, but both of these computers have been set that way for a very long time and have never installed updates upon a reboot or shut down before. They’ve always had to click the “Install updates” button before.

    That Windows update option does say “let me choose whether to install them”… what happened to the “let me choose” part? They’re limited to one shot at choosing before the first reboot now? Am I overlooking a setting someplace else?

    Thanks in advance Woody… for EVERYTHING you do!

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