Originally Posted by
rwalterk How the **** does that "force update" work if you're disconnecting the computer's Internet connection?
I think that it does a search for the update, then does a search for information related to your phone specifically. If in the second search it determines you aren't eligible for whatever reason, the search results will come back empty, despite there being an update available. So you start the search, it finds the update, then shut down the connection preventing it from searching for any reason to hide the update based on your phone or whatever.
I think that's what's happening.