Huge .Net Update
waykey
I just got the icon telling me an update was being downloaded. Like so many
times before, the connection indicators were blinking on and off telling me
the connection was intermittent, so like so many times before I logged on to
WinUD which always corrects this problem and found that this was not a
security update but rather one deemed by Microsoft to be high-priority,
called MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK 3.5 SERVICE PACK 1 with a size of 69.2 MEGS!
Is there no one at Microsoft who cares that those of us users who due to
geographic considerations are still stuck using dialup, and that updates of
this size invariably become corrupted before the download completes? The
estimated time for the download is nearly five hours, though the last time I
tried to download so large a file it took almost eight. And what a
coincidence; I just last evening loaded a software which uses the .NET
Framework, to my knowledge the only thing in my world of computing which does
so.
So my question is this; can this update be obtained in hard copy i.e. disc?
MowGreen
No, it can not be obtained on a disc.
Which .NET Framework was installed by the software you mention above ?
Open Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.
Please post what's listed for Microsoft .NET Frameworks.
MowGreen
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Jerry
large files, copy them to a memory stick and give it to you to copy from it
to your system.
"waykey" <way...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FA762648-C70E-42CA...@microsoft.com...
waykey
In control panel, listed as Microsoft .Net Frameworks are as follows:
.Net Framework 1.1 ------No size shown
.Net Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2-----185.00 Mb
.Net Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2-----179.00 Mb
.Net Framework 3.5 Sp1-----28.04 Mb
The software I mentioned in original post was Pinnacle Studio which is a
video capturing and editing software; I didn't mean I'd loaded a .Net
Framework, I just noticed as the software was loading one of the things
happening was "configuring .Net Framework" or something similar. No clue what
that meant.
As an aside, since I restarted after the update installed there has been
constant action on my computer although I only have this site open; over 6 Mb
of something has been received from who knows where. Symantec no longer
allows me to find out what this connection is or where it comes from. Until
it stops my computer is of no use to me; on dialup this "dialogue" will slow
down anything else I try to do to the point of my breaking things...
"MowGreen" wrote:
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MowGreen
for it to function.
Just checked Pinnacle Systems web site and finding out which .NET
Framework the varying products use is an excercise in futility if one
does not know the Version number.
I asked which Versions of the .NET Framework were installed because if
the OS is XP, no higher Version than 2.0 is installed, and the software
that requires it can function on V. 2 and below, there's absolutely *no*
reason to install V. 3 and V 3.5 despite Microsoft's offering of them
via Automatic Update. There's no benefit to the User. None.
A perusal of this newsgroup shows that .NET Framework installation
issues are quite numerous. Every XP User should avoid installing
unnecessary, unwanted .NET Frameworks, despite what MS thinks. <w>
Any Symantec "product" that is aimed at the Home User is a resource hog,
almost incapable of securing the system, and will prove incompatible
with Windows in the long run. If said product includes a firewall it
will slow down any internet connection, even dial up connections, and
provides no more protection than the native XP firewall does.
MowGreen
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