Yes I realise it only checks for updates once a day by default but it often takes a very long time to check for those when it is doing it as it is a background task which, apart from slowing the system down at the beginning of every day when you connect to the net, wastes battery every morning. You do sit on the crapper and browse first thing every morning? I also think it may retry the update during the day if you disconnect the internet before it finishes too. I for one, didn't want my system wasting processor time and hence battery duration checking for updates every day when I know there are none to be had so I set it to check only once per week and saved a whole tonne of battery use and I get faster browsing whilst on the crapper. rgds