Why do I get updates for silverlight and visual studio 2008? I don't have one of these programs on my computer.

The only thing I know that I can do is to hide these updates.

Hi Liz Welker,.

Please use the Microsoft Windows 7 forum.

(a) is your Windows 7 operating system?

(b) these updates fail to install?

(c) that you get errors because of these updates?

Check if find you Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Visual Studio in programs and features

If these are not present in programs and features , then you need to reset the Windows components by following this link because it contains fixit : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058

Importance of Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Visual Studio:

Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin. It allows many features such as animations, vector graphics, and audio-video playback, all these applications are rich internet applications. Version 2.0 of Microsoft Silverlight was released in October 2008. He got a few other interactive features and support for .NET languages and development tools. It is compatible with many web browsers used on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Symbian and Windows Mobile 6 phones will be also supported. New free software of third party named Moonlight is under development. Once released, it will bring compatible functionality to GNU/Linux.

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development (IDE) of Microsoft environment. It can be used to develop console and applications to graphical user interface and the Windows Forms, web sites, Web applications and web services in both native code with managed code for all platforms supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE, .NET Framework, .NET Compact Framework and Microsoft Silverlight.


Importance of updates from Microsoft:

Microsoft regularly issues updates or patches to fix security problems in their software.  The critical updates are ones that you should be concerned.  If they are not implemented, it leaves your computer vulnerable to hackers.  Service Packs are updated larger who upgrade and resolve security issues.

If your operating system is windows 7 and that you don't want, disable the automatic updates for these programs.

Activate the update or disable automatic

So that Windows install important updates as they are available, turn on automatic updating. Important updates provide significant benefits, such as improved security and reliability. You can also set Windows to automatically install recommended updates, which can address non-critical problems and help enhance your computing experience. Microsoft updates and optional updates are not downloaded or installed automatically. For more information about automatic updating, see Understanding Windows automatic update. To learn more about the types of updates that Microsoft publishes, go to this section of the Knowledge Base on the Web Microsoft Help and Support site.

1. open Windows Update by clicking on the button start the picture of the Start button. In the search box, type Update, and then in the list of results, click Windows Update.

2. in the left pane, click on change settings.

3. under important updates, choose the option you want.

4. under recommended updates, select the Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates check box, and then click OK. Need administrator permission if you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

You can also choose if you want to allow anyone to install updates by selecting the allow all users to install updates on this computer check box. This applies only to updates and installed software manually; automatic updates will be installed independently of the user.

For more information, see: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Turn-automatic-updating-on-or-off

hope this helps
Aziz Nadeem - Microsoft Support

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