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Old January 22nd 19, 06:21 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Bill[_39_]
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Default Lengthen the life of Windows 7 using the legal system

Filip454 wrote:

In general, auto-update is a very bad idea. It causes trouble.


I don't use auto-update. But I did not use my laptop for 4 or 5
months, tried to download and run the updates, and soon found my
system could not even check for an update. I think the problem is
specific to HP and ASUS laptops. A naive user might have trouble
doing the fix--it required some long keyboard entries at the
command line. Basically, just closing a service, renaming a file,
and restarting a service--not rocket science, but not something
my parents would try to do.