Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
Bah, the reboots exist because you can't replace bits that are currently in use... -Curt they can make it reboot automatically. Why the manual only, other than to annoy? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
Bah, the reboots exist because you can't replace bits that are currently in use... -Curt From: Curly McLain via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curly McLain <126die...@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop! >On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:39:35 -0400 Max Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > >> Yay! ? >> >> Would installation of win 7 SP1 reduced the issues? > >I presume you mean, "Would installation of win 7 SP1 have reduced the >issues?" > >Probably, but I didn't have SP1 available. > >Now Windows Update says my system is fully up-to-date, so I don't have to >do anything more. > >Craig The last times I installed 2000 and XP, the updates take a day and several manual shutdown/restarts. I believe MS does this intentionally so that you get disgusted installing the "old" OS and go out and buy the "new" OS, which is still only 2000 with all the patches and a gussied up "new" interface. (bloatware) I did that experiment years ago when XP was new. Clean installs of 2000 (near or at end of life) Wissta and XP ran all the SPs and Updates until MS was happy. Each HD had about the same amount of space used. By now since 2000 and XP are dead and MS does not admit wissta ever existed, that a fully patched Winder 10 will be bigger than fully patched XP, but I'd bet it is nearly the same as a fully patched winders 8.1. Sounds like M$ is playing the "frustrate you with winders 7 installs so you go out and buy 10" game. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
I just bought a Dell XP laptop for $40 to run my little laser burner machine. I don't think I will be fooling with updates on it or whatever, though I did have to find a driver to try to get the wireless to talk to my router, which it now does but won't connect to wifi. I think the new router language is beyond its kin. --R On 8/26/15 12:18 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:39:35 -0400 Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: Yay! ? Would installation of win 7 SP1 reduced the issues? I presume you mean, "Would installation of win 7 SP1 have reduced the issues?" Probably, but I didn't have SP1 available. Now Windows Update says my system is fully up-to-date, so I don't have to do anything more. Craig The last times I installed 2000 and XP, the updates take a day and several manual shutdown/restarts. I believe MS does this intentionally so that you get disgusted installing the "old" OS and go out and buy the "new" OS, which is still only 2000 with all the patches and a gussied up "new" interface. (bloatware) I did that experiment years ago when XP was new. Clean installs of 2000 (near or at end of life) Wissta and XP ran all the SPs and Updates until MS was happy. Each HD had about the same amount of space used. By now since 2000 and XP are dead and MS does not admit wissta ever existed, that a fully patched Winder 10 will be bigger than fully patched XP, but I'd bet it is nearly the same as a fully patched winders 8.1. Sounds like M$ is playing the "frustrate you with winders 7 installs so you go out and buy 10" game. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:39:35 -0400 Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: Yay! ? Would installation of win 7 SP1 reduced the issues? I presume you mean, "Would installation of win 7 SP1 have reduced the issues?" Probably, but I didn't have SP1 available. Now Windows Update says my system is fully up-to-date, so I don't have to do anything more. Craig The last times I installed 2000 and XP, the updates take a day and several manual shutdown/restarts. I believe MS does this intentionally so that you get disgusted installing the "old" OS and go out and buy the "new" OS, which is still only 2000 with all the patches and a gussied up "new" interface. (bloatware) I did that experiment years ago when XP was new. Clean installs of 2000 (near or at end of life) Wissta and XP ran all the SPs and Updates until MS was happy. Each HD had about the same amount of space used. By now since 2000 and XP are dead and MS does not admit wissta ever existed, that a fully patched Winder 10 will be bigger than fully patched XP, but I'd bet it is nearly the same as a fully patched winders 8.1. Sounds like M$ is playing the "frustrate you with winders 7 installs so you go out and buy 10" game. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:39:35 -0400 Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Yay! ? > > Would installation of win 7 SP1 reduced the issues? I presume you mean, "Would installation of win 7 SP1 have reduced the issues?" Probably, but I didn't have SP1 available. Now Windows Update says my system is fully up-to-date, so I don't have to do anything more. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
> On August 26, 2015 at 8:07 AM Mitch Haley via Mercedes > wrote: > format and install windows from a slipstreamed > Win 7 CD, I meant to say a Win7 CD with SP1 slipsteamed onto it. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
> On August 26, 2015 at 7:39 AM Max Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > > Yay! ? > > Would installation of win 7 SP1 reduced the issues? I just back up the windows activation, format and install windows from a slipstreamed Win 7 CD, restore the activation, and selectively update with windows update, downloading most of the security patches and not much else. Then I have to install all my drivers and software. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
Yay! ? Would installation of win 7 SP1 reduced the issues? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Finished with updating Win7 laptop!
I finally got the laptop completely updated and I didn't even have to reformat the disk and reinstall Win7! I downloaded Microsoft Fixit from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058 and ran it for a few hours. It then stopped saying I should restart Windows Update. I did so and Windows Update said it had 164 updates to install. It went ahead and installed them without problem. After installation, the laptop needed to be rebooted, so I told it to reboot. It took a long while to shutdown because it needed to do things to the disk and it took a long while to reboot for the same reason. I re-ran Windows Update after it rebooted and found it had more things to update. I had it do that and, of course, rebooted. I again re-ran Windows Update after it rebooted and found it had more things to update. I had it do that and, of course, rebooted yet again. I again re-ran Windows Update after it rebooted again and found it had more things to update. I had it do that and, of course, rebooted yet another time. And maybe a time more; I lost track. I then did some disk cleanups. Oddly, I had LESS freespace on the disk after some of those than I had before. The updates take about 5 Gigabytes of disk space; a quarter of the 20 GB I had allocated to the C: drive. Now I can install Garmin Express, the thing I started out to do! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
