Charles Scaglione (1:106/2000) wrote to Steven Horn at 13:02 on 25 Apr 2003:

 CS> Definitely turn that "feature" off.  There are many tales of woe 
 CS> floating around in the XP groups of people who automatically
 CS> downloaded  a security update from MS (Q 811493) that subsequently
 CS> slowed down their  system or caused it not to boot.  MS has
 CS> acknowledged the problems and  has issued a warning about it.

Q811493 gave my system no problems.  It was installed on the 16th of April
and my system reboots without any problems.  Its performance is also
unaffected.

I've also read the new cautions and am satisfied that the problems are
associated with Windows XP SP1.  I don't run XP.

 CS> Automatic updating from the MS site is nice if everything MS did
 CS> was  correct and did not cause other problems...

I've had more trouble updating from the Windows Update page.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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