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Windows Update

  • 20-03-2004 11:15pm
    #1
    Ivan
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone check their windows update lately?

    Here it is...

    http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/


Comments

  • #2
    radiospan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,353 ✭✭✭radiospan


    There's a "critical update" that removes the Nazi symbol from the Bookman font.

    The description of it says that it removes unsuitable characters.


  • #3
    joePC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭joePC


    Still cant use it since I installed SP2 Beta release,


  • #4
    Ivan
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ivan


    Err, I cant upload a screen-shot of what I'm getting cos its bigger than 102400 bytes or some such. Its 187 kb :(

    I'm gonna try find some webspace of mine and put it up there :)

    Gimme a few mins.

    Also, I've been told it may have returned to normal...


  • #5
    Ivan
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ivan


    This is what I'm getting...

    http://members.boards.ie/ivan/windows.jpg


  • #6
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i hate the way you gotta have IE5 or better to use windows update

    what about us firefox/opera users


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  • #7
    Ivan
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ivan


    Is the rest of the world gone crazy all of a sudden... is nobody seeing what I'm seeing?

    :(


  • #8
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    nope i'm not seeing it anyways :S


  • #9
    Makaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    You didn't just go to www.linux.org and wait for it to load and then just type http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ did you?
    Not being cynical at all.


  • #10
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    actually he did, when your on windows update the url is diff


  • #11
    Crash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,198 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Originally posted by Makaveli
    You didn't just go to www.linux.org and wait for it to load and then just type http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ did you?
    Not being cynical at all.


    Pfft, philistine, this is a work of god i tellsya! OF GOD!!


    ....i'm done now.


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  • #12
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    it happened on a few different machines here, great stuff :)


  • #13
    Ivan
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,569 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ivan


    You'll notice if you follow my link, or click on windows update yourself on your machine, that your sent to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ first, and then redirected to whatever...


  • #14
    Makaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Makaveli


    Yes redirected to http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp


  • #15
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    he ran ms windows update from the lil icon above the start menu..

    are you daft or something?


  • #16
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    Check the hosts file.


  • #17
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Originally posted by plazz2000
    There's a "critical update" that removes the Nazi symbol from the Bookman font.

    The description of it says that it removes unsuitable characters.
    Really? That's stupid. Are people gonna stop being racist now that the swastika's gone?


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