auto update

[Jake]

>-----Original Message-----
>I see where the time setting is for using the windows
auto update download,
>but what controls how long your computer stays online to
get the downloads?
>thanks, mc
>
>
>.
>Eh? I assume the length/size of the download.

[mc]

Yes, what controls the time the computer stays online? I've noticed it takes
a week to download the larger updates.

[Walter Clayton]

You control how long your computer stays online.

However to answer what you're trying to ask, autoupdate basically runs using
idle communication time. To use an extreme example, if you're attempting to
media stream on a dial-up connection all the time, odds are auto updates,
even small ones, will take an extremely long time to actually download. On
the other hand if you're sitting on an OC3 pipe, you can do media streaming
and AU will still have plenty of bandwidth to run rather rapidly.

--
Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP)
Associate Expert
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"mc" <ok@coral> wrote in message
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> Yes, what controls the time the computer stays online? I've noticed it
takes
> a week to download the larger updates.
>
>