Important Update for Windows Vista (KB955020) 56.3 MB

[Vista User]

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.

 

[Gordon]

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded
from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates"
before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At
Risk," turns the Windows Live
OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at
risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to
automatically download and install "important"
updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as
KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary
for Microsoft Office, which I do not and > will not use) before I am able
to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is
considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it
completes?

Dunno, what is this to do with OUTLOOK? And please do NOT post in
HTML....and also do NOT crosspost to more than TWO OR THREE RELATED
groups...you have posted to NINE.



..

 

[Bruce.]

" Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is
considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it
completes?"

Everything about Vista is bloated and slow, including the updates. It's a
rule.

Bruce.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Post your b*tch here instead, please:

Windows Live OneCare Forums
http://forums.microsoft.com/windowsonecare/default.aspx?siteid=2
--
~PAÞ

I was forced to wait for a 56.3 MB "Important" Update to be downloaded from Windows Update before I could use my own computer.

If I set Windows Update to allow me to review "high-priority updates" before downloading, then Windows Live OneCare shows my computer to be "At Risk," turns the Windows Live OneCare icon to bright red, and prompts me that my computer "May be at risk from Internet threats." And if I do set Windows Update to automatically download and install "important" updates, I am forced to wait until a 56.3 MB "Important" update such as KB955020 (which adds the following five words to the English dictionary for Microsoft Office, which I do not and will not use) before I am able to simply start and use my own computer.

Can anyone explain to me why this 56.3 MB download from Windows Update is considered important enough to deny me the use of my own computer until it completes?

Thanks.




In Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008, when you check the spelling of English language text in an application that uses the English dictionary, all the following words cannot be recognized and are flagged as being misspelled:
. Friendster
. Klum
. Nazr
. Obama
. Racicot

One example of an application that uses the English dictionary is Windows Mail.


Restart requirement

You have to restart the computer after you apply this update.