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Windows 8.1 Update 2

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by antik, 2014/08/15.

  1. 2014/08/15
    antik

    antik Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Windows 8.1 Update 2

    (Quote) "If you are using Windows 8.1, you will need to manually download Update 2 because, for some reason, it is currently published as an optional update. "

    (Quote) "To do so, visit the (Modern) Windows Update control panel (PC Settings, Update and Recovery, Windows Update), and tap the Check now button. When Windows Update is done checking for available updates, tap the "View details" link. On the View Details screen, you'll see an entry in the Optional section called "Update for Windows 8.1 for x64 (or x86)-based Systems (KB2975719)." (If you have a lot of updates to install, it could be a ways down the screen.) "
     
  2. 2014/08/15
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Certainly well hidden - installed.
     

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    retiredlearner

    retiredlearner SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    All OK here.;) I'm going to check the Notebook and the wife's PC. Neil.
     
  5. 2014/08/16
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    When I checked my update history KB2975719 was installed on 08-12-14. Thanks for the heads up. I don't post a lot but I visit windowsbbs every day just to read and learn
     
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    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    It was not already installed? Like lj50, mine installed with the last batch of updates a couple days ago. IIRC, however, it was an optional "rollup" update.
     
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    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    I assume not as it downloaded & installed without issue. I rarely install any optional updates.

    Interestingly Susan Bradley of Windows Secrets made the following comment on Thursday 14th ....
     
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    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    I never do automatically. I check to see what it is first - not so much to see if I want it, but to see if I don't want it (like Silverlight, for example).
     
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    hawk22

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    I had 14 updates on the 14/08/2014 including one, Update for Windows 8.1 KB2979500, but no update with KB2975719.
    The only update there to install, is one from Radeon for my Graphics Card non essential.
    By the way would you update your graphics card when she is running trouble free?? I normally don't.
     
  10. 2014/08/17
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    I would not update hardware drivers via Windows Update - always from the manufacturer's site.

    You know the old adage .... 'If ii ain't broke etc.....' :)
     
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    hawk22

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    Thanks Pete, thought you'd say that.
     
  12. 2014/08/17
    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Surprisingly, I have never had any problems updating drivers via Windows Update with W8.x. I say surprisingly because I really expected problems when I set my system for automatic updates - against my general philosophy for the last 20 years. I did it because that is how the vast majority of users (and my customers) have theirs set (as that is the default setting). I wanted to experience what they experienced. And it was boringly uneventful - a good thing!

    But expecting problems was me violating my own preaching and forgetting that W8 is not XP.

    By that I mean, past experiences and practices with XP are just that, in the past, and with a TOTALLY DIFFERENT operating system. Microsoft has done a lot of fine tuning with Windows Update with W7 and more fine tuning with W8 in the 13 years since XP came out. And driver makers have come along way in improving their installation routines too.

    I have since changed WU to yell at me when new updates are available instead of just automatically installing them. But that is because I don't want MS to shove the Bing Toolbar, Bing Desktop or Silverlight or something else on my system without my knowing. Not because I fear the update will fail or break my computer.

    Since building this system when W8 came out, there have been 3 or 4 NVIDIA graphics driver updates for my NVIDIA GTX 650 Ti offered through WU and all went very smoothly.

    Do note that Microsoft does not develop these drivers it offers via WU. The makers provide them to MS.

    I don't immediately, but almost always eventually do. I wait and listen for any fallout and if none, then I install.

    It should be noted that many drivers are "driver packages ". The big ones include graphics and BIOS/chipset drivers - that is, several drivers for several devices are bundled into one download, and then the driver install routine sorts out the actual drivers you need depending on the device(s) it detects. And the thing, is, except for brand new hardware, most driver updates don't fix anything - they just add support for new CPUs, new GPUs, or some new protocol used by some new game. Or if they do fix something, it is typically for some non-standard, unique set of circumstances that only affects a tiny percentage of users of that device.

    But many updates tweak settings for better performance. So while you may be running "trouble free" that does not mean you are running at full performance potentials. So if you are unsure of what the driver update does, check the maker's site a Pete suggests and read the change/history file to see what changes the new update addresses. If anything involves security, update. If it just adds support for something you don't have or use, then you can safely wait until the next driver update comes out, and see what it does.
     
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    Gordon

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    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Well, that's certainly not good.
     
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    retiredlearner

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    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    I am sure it was 1000s of reports that caused the withdrawal.
     
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    I'm not having any problems. Just lucky I guess.
     
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    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Since the vast majority of users are not having problems either, it is more like those few with problems are "just unlucky ", and not that you escaped by the skin of your teeth.
     
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    I thought it was more widespread then it really is. I must have misunderstood the article.
     
  20. 2014/08/20
    PeteC

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    To be on the safe side I uninstalled it as advised by MS - Could not risk the chance of bricking the laptop as it's needed for an upcoming trip to the States.
     
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    Reilly

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    mine installed fine via auto update
     

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