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…
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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?
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How to update Google chrome in Ubuntu?
How to update Google chrome in Ubuntu?
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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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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?
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Turn off Microsoft Apps auto update on a Mac
Microsoft used to just do a system notification you could easily disable. Now they launch the auto update program once per day (interrupting whatever you are doing to put the focus on the auto update app -- watching a show? Streaming on Twitch?…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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How can I list all updates installed on Mac OS X?
How can I list all updates installed on Mac OS X?
Marcin Obel
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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…
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