Re: Windows Updates
Many thanks & an apology for delay in reply--the message that I had responses
to my post was routed to Spam. Found it by accident days later. Suggestion
sounds viable, will try it and hope I get lucky. Thanks again.
"Mr. Arnold" wrote:
>
> "Noni in Hurst" <NoniinHurst@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FC427D6B-F95B-4EC9-B1A3-45ACF327902B@microsoft.com...
> > While working in Word (MS Office 2007), I got a message about an update MS
> > wanted to install. Being in the middle of a detailed research project, I
> > selected the "not now" option (sorry, don't remember the right name) and
> > continued working. A little later my screen went completely dark, then
> > showed file lists for virtually every folder I'd opened in the last few
> > days,
> > and finally the familiar "Shutting Down" screen.
>
> Oh well, it looks like you have been toasted at that point.
>
> > When it came back up, the
> > list of available files showed only my original document--four hours of
> > work
> > seems to have been lost. Or is it still there somewhere and I just don't
> > know how to find it?
>
> If I recall, one must start Word manually and use the File Open or most
> Recent files in Word, then it might know that there was a problem and pull
> back a temp copy of the document. That's a maybe.
>
> > Anyone have any suggestions? Can anyone tell me why it
> > didn't save my current work every five minutes like it was set to do? Or
> > why
> > it went ahead with the update after I'd asked it to wait?
>
> Maybe it's there if you try another path in the hopes that a back-up file is
> there. I suspect something is there but it may not be the latest and
> greatest, with some recent changes.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827099
>
>
> > This particular
> > update turned out to have been an update to a fax modem. Why do I keep
> > getting updates for a fax modem when I don't even have a fax machine? I'm
> > kind of new at this and I'm confused.
>
> Well, I don't let it do automatic updates on it's own. I let it notify me
> that there are updates, and I go look what are the updates in the update
> list. From there, I decide which ones are needed or not and will tell the
> Update to remove updates from the list that I don't want to show ever again.
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