In reply to a post by Scottish_Pete:

If you don't want an update to show again just right click on it and click hide update.

Correct..but probably unwise. That's just sweeping the issue under the carpet. If Windows thinks it needs something then let it have it. It's far too complex an OS even for experts to be sure what is dependant on what. Even if you know you're not using Silverlight you might one day and if you've hidden updates for it you'll be running an unsafe, unstable or incompatible version without realising it.

If you want to tinker and hand tune your OS then install Linux. After many years using Windows and developing software for it (going back to 3.1) my advice is just to leave it alone and let it do what it wants to do. It's rarely wrong and just because you don't need something today doesn't mean you won't want it tomorrow.

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In reply to a post by Scottish_Pete:

If you don't want an update to show again just right click on it and click hide update.

Correct..but probably unwise. That's just sweeping the issue under the carpet. If Windows thinks it needs something then let it have it. It's far too complex an OS even for experts to be sure what is dependant on what. Even if you know you're not using Silverlight you might one day and if you've hidden updates for it you'll be running an unsafe, unstable or incompatible version without realising it.

Totally agree with you... it is unwise not to install the updates.
But the OP asked the question, I just gave them the solution. It is up to them if they want to run there system unstable, unsafe or incompatible, not mine.

In reply to a post by Scottish_Pete:

In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by Scottish_Pete:

If you don't want an update to show again just right click on it and click hide update.

Correct..but probably unwise. That's just sweeping the issue under the carpet. If Windows thinks it needs something then let it have it. It's far too complex an OS even for experts to be sure what is dependant on what. Even if you know you're not using Silverlight you might one day and if you've hidden updates for it you'll be running an unsafe, unstable or incompatible version without realising it.

Totally agree with you... it is unwise not to install the updates.
But the OP asked the question, I just gave them the solution. It is up to them if they want to run there system unstable, unsafe or incompatible, not mine.

Yeah, no probs. I actually had to hide one update earlier in the year. It broke MMC on servers which was a bit of a pain because server configuration is almost totally reliant on MMC these days. The only other one I've hidden is IE9 because I use Chrome and can't get on with the font handling in IE9 anyway.

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In reply to a post by Scottish_Pete:

If you don't want an update to show again just right click on it and click hide update.

Correct..but probably unwise. That's just sweeping the issue under the carpet.

Concur - if you don't want silverlight, go to control panel -> programs and features, and uninstall it, so then you'll get no updates for it

More importantly update Flash, and use something like www.secunia.com with the Online Security Scanner (OSI) which scans all products, not just MS.