Monday, May 18, 2015

Careful of Windows Vista Ultimate's Optional Updates

Windows Update is a really nice thing, and I usually make sure to get all the updates, including optional ones. However, I was using a Windows Vista Ultimate computer the other day, and I noticed something weird when I went to update it. The list of optional updates is full of completely unnecessary stuff like language packs for every language I've ever heard of, plus some game-ish things that somehow add value to Vista.

I had to carefully go through and pick out the updates that actually update Windows. I'm not sure how to banish the language packs, but I know you probably don't want them - so don't hit the select-all checkbox in the optional updates list.

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