Windows Update, ie5 update, etc.

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2 total messages Started by Andy Mabbett Sun, 08 Aug 1999 00:00

#671

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 00:00

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I am using ie5, whose 'About' tells me it is:

        Version: 5.00.2014.0216
        Update Versions:;3725;

When I use tools -> Windows Update, it tells me:

        You have an older version of Internet Explorer 5 and Internet 
        Tools. If you would like to download additional components from 
        the Windows Update catalog (sic), you must first upgrade to the 
        latest version

If I say yes to the update, I then download a 470K file, ie5setup.exe,
which (so long as I am on-line) runs a procedure to download 15Mb of ie5
upgrade - seemingly, the whole ie5 package again (there are configurable
options for extra fonts, etc, and it doesn't seem to recognise which, if
any, of these I already have). Indeed, it seems no different to the
first time I downloaded ie5. It is here that I cancelled the update!

What I want to know is, can I simply upgrade using a version of ie5 for
a magazine cover disc? How will I know I have the latest version?

Is there a web site where I can download the 15Mb of files without using
the update application, so I can do it using a different, leased line,
account, and save my phone bill? What if I had two or more machines I
wanted to update?

Why can't I simply download a "patch" which will do the necessary
updates - and what are these updates?

I don't want to start another MS is shite/ brilliant war, but what
possible advantages are there for them in steering us towards working in
this way?

Short of running windows update every week or so, is there a way to be
kept up- to- date with such changes (for Windows and ie5)? Perhaps a
mailing list, or an 'announce' newsgroup?

(cross- posted; should I have asked this elsewhere?)
-- 
Andy Mabbett
        "In derelict sidings, the poppies entwine
         With cattle trucks, lying in wait, for the next time"
                                Roger Waters, 1982

Re: Windows Update, ie5 update, etc.

#672

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 00:00

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In article <aeoO28AMWer3Ewfm@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, Andy Mabbett
<andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> writes
>I am using ie5, whose 'About' tells me

...not to post the same thing twice. Sorry.
-- 
Andy Mabbett
        "In derelict sidings, the poppies entwine
         With cattle trucks, lying in wait, for the next time"
                                Roger Waters, 1982

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