I have covered various applications before that download all related Windows Updates from Microsoft to a computer. Some that I mentioned are the Autopatcher Updater, Project Dakota and Offline Update. It’s never a problem to have more options and I would like to add another application to the mix.
Windows Updates Downloader was initially designed [...]
Windows Updates Downloader
Microsoft Security Updates for June 2008
Microsoft finally released the Security Bulletin for June 2008 that contains links to seven updates for various Microsoft products. The bulletin lists three critical, three important and one moderate update with only various versions and editions of Microsoft Windows being affected. The updates are available through various means, most users will probably prefer to download [...]
List all installed Windows Updates
Nirsoft once again provide us with an excellent utility called WinUpdatesList (via Genbeta) which lists all Windows updates that have been installed on the local system. The software runs as is and can be executed from any location on the hard drive. One interesting aspect is that all Microsoft operating systems from Windows 98 to [...]
Software Updates Week 13 2008
Welcome to this week’s article that is listing all the interesting software updates of the last seven days. I’m trying my best to keep an overview of all the updates of the past week and collect them in that time to present you one article each Wednesday that contains a list of many major software [...]
Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 Refresh
I do not know how you feel about the current situation but I’m feeling a little bit overwhelmed by the Service Pack Release spree that Microsoft seems to be in lately. Just a few hours ago they released the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 Refresh to the public which is available in [...]
Windows Update Error services not running
I read today that Windows Update would not work with the beta version of Internet Explorer 8. I did want to check it out for myself before writing about it and went to the Windows Update website which greeted me with the error message “The site cannot continue because one or more of these Windows services is not running”. The services mentioned were Automatic Updates, Event Log and Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).
Software Updates Week 10 2008
I’m looking back at the last seven days each Wednesday and write an article listing the software that has been updated in that time so that everyone gets a great overview of software that he needs to update.
