Microsoft, why do you torment me so ?
I`ve long been moaning about Windows Vista. Several times I`ve had to "fix" this OS, usually by carrying out a total re-install.
Sorting out a friend's laptop right now. Got the call "something's wrong with my laptop". Sure enough, 13 updates to install, installed them (successfully - so it says), only to reboot and find that they actually failed. Did the google thing, tried a few suggestions (as usual, I found umpteen possible solutions) without success. Oh joy, a clean install is required.
Started yesterday evening at around 8pm, about an hour to carry out Toshiba's restore, then a couple of hours of updates before tiredness and the boredom of watching "1 of 39 updates, please do not switch off or unplug your computer" kicked in. Started work on it again at 8.40 this morning. Several reboots later (and a couple of "some updated failed to install") and I'm still having to keep going back to the machine to see if "preparing to install updates" has advanced to actually installing them.
So, around 7 hours later, the laptop is still not ready to be returned to it's owner, and I'm wondering if I should refuse to work on any Vista based machine ever again. I wouldn't mind, but the laptop is pretty decent - dual core Pentium and 3GB RAM. Can't blame slow downloads, as my connection is around 10mb. And at the end of all this, I wonder how long it will be before I hear that "updates are failing" again ?
Rant over.
I'll no go and see if the 1 update it started a few minutes ago is the last one (I doubt it).
I`ve long been moaning about Windows Vista. Several times I`ve had to "fix" this OS, usually by carrying out a total re-install.
Sorting out a friend's laptop right now. Got the call "something's wrong with my laptop". Sure enough, 13 updates to install, installed them (successfully - so it says), only to reboot and find that they actually failed. Did the google thing, tried a few suggestions (as usual, I found umpteen possible solutions) without success. Oh joy, a clean install is required.
Started yesterday evening at around 8pm, about an hour to carry out Toshiba's restore, then a couple of hours of updates before tiredness and the boredom of watching "1 of 39 updates, please do not switch off or unplug your computer" kicked in. Started work on it again at 8.40 this morning. Several reboots later (and a couple of "some updated failed to install") and I'm still having to keep going back to the machine to see if "preparing to install updates" has advanced to actually installing them.
So, around 7 hours later, the laptop is still not ready to be returned to it's owner, and I'm wondering if I should refuse to work on any Vista based machine ever again. I wouldn't mind, but the laptop is pretty decent - dual core Pentium and 3GB RAM. Can't blame slow downloads, as my connection is around 10mb. And at the end of all this, I wonder how long it will be before I hear that "updates are failing" again ?
Rant over.
I'll no go and see if the 1 update it started a few minutes ago is the last one (I doubt it).