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Re: SP2 Horror Story
From:
Russ Poffenberger <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:01:32 -0700
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At 08:23 AM 10/12/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Last Saturday morning, I was on our family laptop (Dell, connected
>wirelessly to our Dell desktop) and an info bubble popped up and said
>there are updates available, do you want to download.  I clicked OK and to
>my horror, it started installing SP2.  The info bubble said nothing about
>loading SP2, it just "surprised" me after I clicked OK and the pop-up
>window showed the SP2 loading.

FWIW, I ALWAYS get the details of these info bubbles before allowing any
updates to proceed. This way I can be sure of what it wants to download.

Russ Poffenberger
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