Thanks to all for your comments. It inspired me to use the tried and true
method of carefully reading the words in the box I'm trying to change. The
options in the Automatic Updates box mentions download and installing only.
Help states XP will routinely check for new updates and provide an alert. I
received an alert (icon blight), the Silverlight update did not download
automatically.
The big picture is that I'm trying to reduce the startup burden for my
notebook which has ballooned from less than a minute to about 3
0. I did
discover there were four scheduled tasks that I was unaware of. First was an
Ad-Aware Update, which is no longer on my computer. The other three were
Google tasks as a result of installing Google Earth.
Thanks
Scott
Los Angeles
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:etAai0mmKHA.5612@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Harry Johnston [MVP] wrote:
>> On 2010-01-21 1:52 p.m., PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
>>
>>>>>> A few days ago I changed the automatic update settings (Control
>>>>>> Panel->Security) to only check for updates each Thursday at 8am.
>>>>
>>>> Nope. This setting controls when updates are installed, not when they
>>>> are
>>>> checked for or downloaded.
>>>
>>> <rhetorical questions, all>
>>>
>>> So why the prompt to install (we assume) a Silverlight update on a
>>> Wednesday morning?
>>
>> Rhetorical answer: because that's when the update finished downloading?
>> I'm not sure what you're getting at - Automatic Updates always tells you
>> as
>> soon as updates are available to install.
>
> But you said the setting was for when updates were installed. Wednesday
> is not Thursday.
>
>>> Is the update-in-question KB979202, which didn't hit WU until Tuesday,
>>> 19 Jan-10?
>>
>> Third Tuesday of the month - also normal for non-security updates.
>
> Yes, but none are listed for Jan. 20th in KB894199 as one would expect.