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Summary: Microsoft regularly releases updates and patches to the Windows operating systems, called Critical Updates, to solve security vulnerabilities.
Requirements:
Note: Automatic Updates downloads and installs critical updates and security patches only. Optional patches or driver updates must be installed by running Windows Update manually.
Automatic Updates
Configure your computer running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4 to automatically download and install future Windows updates.
- Log in to your computer using an account with Administrator privileges. Faculty and staff using a BC owned computer should sign in with their BC username and password. Students and others using a personally owned computer should sign in with the Administrator account (the account that came installed on your computer at the time of purchase).
- Close all open applications.
- From the Start menu, select Settings and Control Panels.
- Double Click on the Automatic Updates icon in your Control Panels (refer to Figure 1). If you do not have an Automatic Updates icon in your control panel you do not have a required service pack. Please follow the steps outlined in Windows Updates for Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.
Figure 1 - Control Panel Icon- The Automatic Update window will appear (refer to Figure 2).
Figure 1 - Automatic Updates Window
- Check the Keep my computer up to date. With this setting enabled, Windows Update software may be automatically updated prior to applying any other updates checkbox.
- Select the Automatically download the updates and install them on the schedule I specify radio button.
- Make sure the pull-down menu on the left is displaying Every day.
- Using the pull-down menu on the right, select a time of day that you know your computer will be on.
- Click OK.
You have completed the Windows Automatic Updates setup. When new critical Windows Updates available, your computer will automatically download and install the updates.
