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Windoze Update..

..Had the obligatory update from Windoze today...im on Vista.

Turned off the laptop to felicitate the installation of said update it said '1 of 22 updates'

It got to #8 before i had to go to work..so I left it running... came home from work 8odd hours later it was still on #8 so i gave it a swift shutdown and reboot.. usual 'unexpected shutdown' screen but she started up ok continuing with a '1 of 3 updates blah blah' screen..

Did anyone esle get this...or hang at update #8?


Thank you please :)


EDIT... I now notice my eset is showing the signs...and the install updates icon is on the 'turn off' button again *groan*
 
..ah well.. 2nd time lucky :) :rolleyes:
 
vista is the one OS l cant stand, last time l worked on that OS l realised how annoying updates can be.. tho l havent experienced your issue it doesnt surprise me considering how badly it was made.

it reminds me of ME, they only threw it together for the millennium(sp?), still at least they got something right with Win7, regardless back on the topic of updates, why is it that when you reinstall you still have like 20/30 reboots just to install the updates? it really annoyed me that it didnt just show them all and only allowed you to see a couple at a time.
 
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My Eset has been telling me to update for the past couple of days, will give it a try but hopefully everything will be peachy. The worst Windows Updates are the ones that cause your computer's HD boot table to corrupt, those are always fun :) .
 
..I looked into formatting and putting on Win7. Looked simple enough and cheap enough but, with the vids on youtube of the problems that 'can' occur with drivers and flickering back lights (laptop) and the like...I decided to adopt the 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' attitude.

I do gather it would make it run faster though as Win7 is much less of a drag on the system than Vista but...


Anyways....the update started the same but skipped straight to #9 and went ok right to #22 (22 updates?!!)

Be interesting to see if yours hangs Mark.J if it was a required reboot, they coulda put a note up to say so :(
 
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Windoze updates

RE: Did anyone esle get this...or hang at update #8?

For the first time, on the laptop (but not the desktop with identical programmes) the two updates for Office 2007 refused to install, with an error code that does not feature on the MS list. In my case the remaining updates installed correctly. I suspect another bit of shoddy testing from MS, which seeems increasingly common. (Googling only suggested an incompatibility with an HP registry entry which I do not have!).
 
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No problems on my Desktop system, will update the Netbook later.
 
no problems on both my laptop or PC to speak of.
 
Ok on laptop and desktop (64 bit).
Still got the stupid restart nonsense but Ubuntu has started doing that too.
 
vista is the one OS l cant stand, last time l worked on that OS l realised how annoying updates can be.. tho l havent experienced your issue it doesnt surprise me considering how badly it was made.

it reminds me of ME, they only threw it together for the millennium(sp?), still at least they got something right with Win7, regardless back on the topic of updates, why is it that when you reinstall you still have like 20/30 reboots just to install the updates? it really annoyed me that it didnt just show them all and only allowed you to see a couple at a time.

My dad's laptop came with Vista home premium on it. I didn't find it too bad when I've used it, but I've just recently upgraded it to Windows 7 64 bit anyway, since the laptop came with Vista on a hidden "recovery" partition which would overwrite the 'C' partition, and with no Windows Vista install media, and no vista recovery console. The OEM image restore utility failed anyway, I would guess because we'd shrunk the C partition, so he could keep his data on a separate partition. Still got some problems with it though, had to install and run a third party utility from boot-up to get speedstep working, as the CPU was limping along at just over half speed - apparently it had been running slow for some time even under Vista.

Anyway, he did have an issue with Kaspersky (firewall + anti-virus) shortly after installing some windows 7 updates in the last few days. The Internet connection froze for a while, then Kaspersky (wrongly) complained that its license had expired, then crashed altogether. A reboot sorted it all out though.
 
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Did you upgrade from Vista 32Bit Prem to Windows 7 64Bit?

Anyway I've heard lots of people complain about Vista > 7 upgrades, which is why I always do clean installs :) .
 
Well, it was a clean install over vista 32 bit, using a windows 7 upgrade DVD, which insists on checking for an existing windows xp/vista install, although I'm reliably informed that you can get around that by installing it over the beta version. We split the cost of a 3 license "family" version, as it worked out at £35 per license, and I'm in the process of buying a few bits for a new PC myself.

Apparently, the speedstep issue shows up under a linux distro too, although an earlier linux distro had run at full speed, as had vista originally. My brother reckons flashing an updated bios might fix it.
 
Not all laptops work with automated speedstep. Although the last one I found with this issue was the orignal eeePC.

Seems crazy making a full blown laptop without it, but I've seen computer manufactures do so crazy things in the past. A bios update may fix it, but its a possibility its a limit of the CPU/chipset used.
 
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