Boris wrote:


I looked at both your and Jonathan N. Little's links. Thank you, both.

My system already had IMEI installed, so with "Intel-System-1/21/2019
12:00:00 AM-1904.12.0.1209" on deck waiting to be installed with a
restart, and not being able to get any new updates until I flushed this
one out of its pending install mode, I restarted. The "Intel-System..."
was installed. I hit the check for updates button and another Windows
update was found, which I installed. I hit the check for updates button
again, and another update came down, which I installed. One more check
for updates and down came feature update 1903, skipping over 1809.

It's like something stuck in the pipes ("Intel-System...") that had to be
flushed down before any more updates could come down. Sort of like what
Monty said in this post:




On another identical Dell (I don't love Dell) machine that I administer, I
did the same thing. That is, keep hitting check for updates, and install
whatever comes down. Eventually, that machine also updated from 1803 to
1903, skipping over 1809.

So much for updating automatically. Still needs human intervention, at
least in my case(s).

Clicking the "Check For Updates" button makes you a "Seeker".

This changes the behavior of updating, and "gets them faster"
in certain cases.

So it actually does make a difference.

The OS is more "laid back" if you never punch that button.

This is different than older versions of Windows, where
punching the button did not "give the OS an attitude".

Paul