Tag: automatic updates

  • Error 8007051a on Windows update

    I recently tried to download and install a few Windows 7 updates, but the auto-updater kept aborting the process with the error number “8007051a”. There was no particularly descriptive error message. At first I thought that it was just some server that could not be reached. But when it still didn’t work after days, I began…

  • Automatic updates in WordPress

    With the release of WordPress 2.7 on 11th December, I was facing a problem: Manual plugin updates don’t seem to be provided for anymore. To date, I had always downloaded my plugins using the download link in the backend and then moved them to my server via FTP, because the automatic update had never worked for me…