This tag is used for problems with updating software in general. It may be appropriate to use other tags in addition to this one to show what program/operating system you are trying to update.
Questions tagged [updates]
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How to install new packages on Cygwin?
I installed the latest version of Cygwin with a number of packages.
I soon realised that I need more packages (such as wget, etc) and I couldn't find a way to install the new packages without running the set up again and reinstall everything from…
Mulone
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Is there anyway to stop Windows 8 from restarting for an update?
My Windows 8 machine is going to restart shortly...
I have tried a few techniques such as shutdown /a which is not having much luck.
Short of pausing the Windows Update service, is there anyway to stop this restart from…
William Hilsum
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Disable auto-update in Notepad++
Is it possible to configure Notepad++ to stop checking for new versions each time it is run?
Every time Nodepad++ is started a dialog pops with:
An update package is available, do you want to download it?
Keyslinger
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Turn off Microsoft apps 'Microsoft AutoUpdate' app on a Mac
Microsoft used to just do a system notification you could easily disable. Now they launch the Microsoft AutoUpdate program process once per day.
This interrupts whatever you are doing to put the focus on the auto update app – watching a show?…
Mike Riess
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How to update Cygwin from Cygwin's command line?
To search and download a package missed from Cygwin I need to run setup.exe GUI each time, click many times and do other boring things.
Is there a way to do the same from Cygwin's command line directly? Like apt-get tools do.
Pavel Vlasov
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sudo apt-get update couldn't create temporary file
Tried to do sudo apt-get update, get this response every time I run it:
Get:1 http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian xenial InRelease [1814 B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Err:1…
Coloradohusky
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Attempting to Install MSU hotfixes results in "Searching for updates on this computer..." to last forever
I am attempting to install two hotfixes manually from Microsoft - one addresses the svchost.exe extreme memory usage problem, and the other addresses the slow Windows Update problem.
This system is a freshly installed Windows 7, and I have the two…
Thomas Ward
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Is it possible to pause the Windows Update download?
I'm on a slow dial-up connection, and my Windows 8 is downloading some critical updates. The connection keeps disconnecting, so I was thinking if it was possible to pause the updates download?
user206414
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Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running
This morning I attempted to run Windows Update on two of my Windows 7 PCs (both are virtual machines), and I ran into this interesting pop-up error message. I have never encountered this problem before, so I was somewhat perplexed.
From the…
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How to make Notepad++ use proxy with username and password?
This has been a frustration for a while - I am trying to figure out how to configure Notepad++ (now at v5.6.8 Unicode) to use a proxy server with a specific username and password when connecting to check for updates. At the moment I get a dialog…
AJH
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Is there a service pack for Windows 10?
I was wondering, is there any service pack available for Windows 10? I had to format my disk recently, and it took several hours to download and install all the updates. I don't want to go through that process again. I wasn't able to find a single…
Marko Gulin
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Can I safely delete the files created by NVIDIA display drivers?
Every time I install a NVIDIA driver the files get unzipped into C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver. I assume the setup copies the files to another location and this unzipped data is only useful for the installation process.
Are those files safe to delete…
Wandang
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Discord thinks I am living in the future - why?
As of today, when I try to open Discord it tells me I need to update to version 0.0.89. The problem is, I am already on version 0.0.90. I'm quite confident of this as the Linux discord client requires me to manually install and download each new…
Isikyus
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Pacman doesn't download anything - Always 404
I want to install some software on my Raspberry Pi running Arch Linux, but I keep getting error 404.
I did some research and found that I needed to do pacman -Syy and pacman -Syu...
When I run pacman -Syy with all mirrors enabled, I get:
# pacman…
Emma Talbert
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