Rob

Thanks Mick,

I didn't know about it when I had XP. In Vista the option is right there
under the Windows Update window. I've enabled it and it ran some ActiveX
thingy and seems to work - I got Office 2007 updates through it. I was just
curious how Microsoft Update interacted, if at all, with Windows Update and
how my settings under the latter would be affected.

"Mick" wrote:

> "Microsoft Update", as opposed to windows update was brought out ages ago in
> XP; it is not something new.
> All you had to do to get it in XP, was to ascertain if your Windows XP was
> genuine
>
> "Rob" wrote:
>
> > For some reason I have never really noticed it but under the Windows Update
> > settings box in Vista, I see a section at the bottom called Update Service
> > with an option to select "Use Microsoft Update".
> >
> > I searched online and it sounds like if one has, say, Office 2007 then using
> > MSFT Update is the way to go as it will also search for updates to Office as
> > well as Windows in one centralised process.
> >
> > My question is; having the service to use MSFT Update enabled, does it
> > affect the other settings in Windows Update, such as when to install updates
> > or whether to just notify of update(s) availability and manually select and
> > install them?