After the recommendations of “windows Secrets” for MSE I uninstalled my former AV-program and went to MSE both on a win7 and a Vista machine. It seems to work fine.
But every time after boot-up I get a warning that the update has failed because there was no internet connection (yet ?).
Than I have two options for a manual update: in the GUI of MSE, or under optional updates of Microsoft update. This last one found the update immediately after booting, why MSE doesn’t ???
I suppose that Microsoft starts always his own processes first and than third parties. So the internet-connection is simply not ready when MSE starts. (the problem was not there with Avira, because Microsoft puts that program at the end of the row ? )
It is cleaver to start the AV-program ASAP, but why they forgot the waiting time before searching the updates, and didn’t build-in a retry ?
Also I have seen the “optical update for MSE” in microsoft update sometimes after being online for hours. So MSE is not very active in retrying.
Both manual ways to update work fine, so there is no blockage. (use windows firewall on the win7 machine and Commodo on the Vista one)
The manual updating everyday is a bit annoying and was not mentioned in the recommendation.
Anybody who recognize this story ?
best
ferdinand
