From: Gregg N 

Geo wrote:
[...]
> My conclusion was that either they do this on purpose to make it all but
> impossible to patch without using windows update or their whole security
> management system is just one big disorganized mess being run by so many
> different hands they can't get anything straight. I am so glad I'm not on
> the windowsupdate team... those poor guys must not have any hair left.
>
> "Gregg N"  wrote in message
> news:420c30ba$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>My Automatic Updates downloaded only one of the updates:
>>
>>    Installation Successful: Windows successfully installed
>>    the following update: Security Update for Microsoft .NET
>>    Framework, Version 1.1 Service Pack 1 (KB886903)
>>
>>Why did automatic update not download any of the others? When I visit
>>windowsupdate.com, it says there are nine critical and important updates
>>for me to download.
 >>[...]

Well, today WAU did downloaded the other eight. Maybe it held off
downloading some of them as a load distribution mechanism.

Gregg

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