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I often see KB in Windows Update code, example KB 2919355, so what is exactly mean of KB? Can anyone help me explain this? Thanks in advance!
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The Knowledge Base is a collection of over 150,000 technical articles provided by Microsoft at http://support.microsoft.com/
Many of the articles are written specifically to provide details of updates to the Windows operating system and other Microsoft products. There are also articles not directly to updates e.g. one is devoted to explaining how to use System File Checker.
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:24:18 +0000, vietvuong wrote:
I often see KB in Windows Update code, example KB 2919355, so what is exactly mean of KB? Can anyone help me explain this? Thanks in advance!
No, it's not my initials <g>; it stands for "Knowledge Base."
There is nothing more to know. It's simply initials.
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:17:08 +0000, vietvuong wrote:
But i want to know more details what is Knowledge Base used in Update code? Can you explain more?
There's very little to know. See Gerry Cornell's reply.
But i want to know more details what is Knowledge Base used in Update code? Can you explain more?
