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Why would you want to be notified in the first place?
By selecting it this way, it will not run download/install the update until I allow it. That will let me devote resources when and where I need them.
But it has too many prompts right now. Previous versions had the option to make it fully automatic once I told it to do the update.
Vincenzo wrote:I've set Live Update to notify me when updates are available so I can choose when to install them. But when I do tell it to do the updates, it requires me to click Yes or Ok on 4 or 5 more dialogs. Is there a way to make the rest of the process automatic once I tell it to proceed? I seem to remember an older version of NAV had this setting option for manual updates.
Thanks
I'll come back to you on this. I thought I had my NIS2008 set to Automatic / Notify me (that's an additonal sub-check box) but it wasn't until I just reset it. This is under XP SP3 -- what OS are you using.
Certainly, the LiveUpdate in NIS2008 never asked me to OK updates one by one.
However if you use a shortcut to LUALL.exe which is located under LiveUpdate in your file manager then it works as in olden times: it checks for updates and provides a list of available one that are pre-checked but you can uncheck individual ones although I"ve never known why one should -- perhaps now that I see more about problems here I could eviseage delaying installation of one because of a problem but I've never done that.
I do agree with your reason for not using full automatic although it can depend on your internet connection (mine is hi-speed) and the resource situation in your PC.
More later .....
I am not picking and choosing updates. I am installing all.
I have Vista, and after checking Yes on "Run Update" there are four more dialogs to say ok on, including one for UAC.
Vincenzo wrote in his first message:
But when I do tell it to do the updates, it requires me to click Yes or Ok on 4 or 5 more dialogs.
I must have misunderstood what you meant by that -- what do the dialogs ask and what answers do you have to give.
I can only say again I've not run into that to my knowledge. But I'll count carefully when I get the Updates available flag next time but my VISTA installation is Norton 360 -- you are using NIS 2008?
Good timing -- I just got the Updates available flag for my NIS 2008 in XP Pro SP3.
I think that perhaps you may be misremembering what used to happen since what I've just seen is what I always remember of LiveUpdate going back a good few generations.
Flag comes up on the System Tray
Asks if I want to update now:
Click on Yes
List of installed Norton applications and "elements" comes up
Click on Next
Get List of available updates, prechecked
Click on Next if you want all that is shown
Get list of updates installed and that all applications and elements are uptodate
Click on Finish.
Then of course because you are in VISTA you get one or more UAC questions ....
I honestly don't remember anything different apart from UAC
Yes your list of dialogs is the same as mine, in NIS 2008.
So what I'm asking for is for it to run automatically after clicking the first yes, without more dialogs. Previous versions let me choose that option when I set it to "ask before running updates".
Vincenzo wrote:Yes your list of dialogs is the same as mine, in NIS 2008.
So what I'm asking for is for it to run automatically after clicking the first yes, without more dialogs. Previous versions let me choose that option when I set it to "ask before running updates".
Message Edited by Vincenzo on 05-26-2008 07:14 AM
It came to me in a flash overnight! <g>
Do the following:
START / Settings / Control Panel
[Since you are in VISTA click on Classic in the left column to show the XP form with icons]
Open Symantec Live Update (yes in Control Panel)
Set it to Express instead of Interactive and OK your way out.
Open NIS / Options and double check that LiveUpdate there is set to Automatic and to Inform me.
OK your way out
Check when you next get the Updates available flag if when you OK it now it just downloads and installs without interaction! (Except UAC I'm sure).
I can't be certain until the next Updates waiting comes along -- I just missed testing this on one. That's in XP Pro of course but from memory VISTA is the same.
Wow! Excellent, that was just what I was looking for.
I'll let you know how it works out.
Thanks
Deeee-lighted. I should ahve thought of it sooner!
Yes, that made the whole process automatic.
Thanks!
I was quite startled when it came up today and I told it to go ahead to see, in XP at least, that all of the updating log scrolled upwards on the pane as it did its check download and install --much more information than in Interactive!
When it's finished you can scroll back up and see what it's done or even copy paste it into Notepad if you don't want to go hunting for the log in Explorer.
I've just tried these same configuration changes on my wife's XP computer, but it responds differently.
On my Vista computer, it gives a small dialog near the tray that says "Updates Available. Do you want to run liveupdate now? Yes No". But when I made the exact same configuration changes we've talked about on my wife's XP computer, all it says by the tray is something like "your signatures are out of date." But there are not any Yes/No buttons to run live update. Is that how it appears on your XP computer?
I've put a shortcut on the desktop to LUALL.exe but since this is my wife's computer, I'm concerned she will never click the shortcut. I'd like the yes/no choice better.
Thanks
Vincenzo wrote:I've just tried these same configuration changes on my wife's XP computer, but it responds differently.
On my Vista computer, it gives a small dialog near the tray that says "Updates Available. Do you want to run liveupdate now? Yes No". But when I made the exact same configuration changes we've talked about on my wife's XP computer, all it says by the tray is something like "your signatures are out of date." But there are not any Yes/No buttons to run live update. Is that how it appears on your XP computer?
I've put a shortcut on the desktop to LUALL.exe but since this is my wife's computer, I'm concerned she will never click the shortcut. I'd like the yes/no choice better.
Thanks
Message Edited by Vincenzo on 05-27-2008 07:29 PM
Yes I get the rectangle in the bottom left corner of the screen about updates available and Yes / No. I'll do a screenshot next time it comes up. Sorry not to spot your message sooner since I've had 3 or 4 update flags since the other day!
Is you wife's version XP Pro or XP Home? There might be some differences in the way they react since there are some deep things that are in XP Pro but not in XP Home, but I doubt that.
You are sure you've set up Live Update in Control Panel as well as its settings inside NIS? Both are NIS2008?
Floating around in my memory bank is having seen that "Your definitions ae out of date" in the past but I can't pin it down.
It's strange, I went on her computer today and it gave me the Yes/No dialog that I was missing yesterday. Let's see what happens tomorrow. And yes, I made changes in both locations.
OK it's working fine now.
Thanks