Resolved Installing Windows updates

Hello Everyone,

I have recently bought a Lenovo laptop with W 7, 64 bit, home premium installed.

I have set my Windows updates configuration at - "Download updates but let me choose whether to install them."

However, when I log off, I frequently get the message - don't shut down, etc, as windows is installing 1 of "X" number of updates.

Why would this happen when I wish to know whether I want the updates or not and whether to instal them or not? and how can I change this strange "take over "?

Thanks in advance for any advice

colinito

 

Steve R Jones, & Evan Omo, Thank you. I realise this, and I may try this too, I don't have much faith in it's success though, since the other method failed, so why should another unrequired choice work - my question was based on the failure of my original choice - where I had configured the Windows Update programme to notify me of the updates that had been downloaded so that I could then choose whether to install them or not. It fails to do this.

Regards,
Colinito

 

Thank you!
Obviously this is the way forward. A shame that the "options" offered by Microsoft are not worth a jot! Makes me wonder why they would even bother to have the option in black and white.
I am usually disappointed by the attitude of Microsoft towards purchasers of their goods. I have never bought a Windows programme, they have always been already installed on the equipment that I have bought. Of course, as we all know, this precludes the purchaser from contacting Microsoft for any assistance - a typical move, sell it and having sold it, the person it is sold to is then responsible for ironing out any subsequent problems!

Once again, thanks for the advice, I shall mark the thread as solved - (and probably go and research the price of Linux!!!)

Regards,

colinito