Microsoft Downloads

[kathy22]

Grrrr

Usually when Microsoft have a new update I don't usually have any problem but I think there may be a rogue file as now when the updates download when shutting down I am finding that when I re boot next time then it won't go past the windows logo and the blue light just barely flickers. I do a System restore and have tried to turn off the Automatic updates but when shutting down it still forces the updates. Am getting mighty fed up with this and cannot see an answer to my problem.

Any ideas

Kathy

[Workingman]

Which operating system Kathy?

[kathy22]

Using Window 7 although this morning when it updated it seemed to let me in no problem. Will see how it goes as it may be a glitch perhaps

Kathy

[Workingman]

I sometimes think that W7 is still a work in progress.

I turned off automatic updates a long time ago because of the time taken. Nowadays I turn them on once in a blue moon and leave it overnight to do its bidding..... then I go in and remove all the stuff I do not need or use and turn them off again.

[kathy22]

Thanks for that, I have turned off the automatic updates just set it to let me choose if I want to download or not

Kathy

[Suff]

Kathy,

I always set my updates to download and notify, never to automatically install. That way I can choose to install them whenever I want but I don't need to wait for them to download.

I'm wondering. If you could not get back in, how did you do your windows restore?

Some updates (especially .net framework), just take a horrendously long time to come in and they don't always spin the hard drive a lot but are actually doing a lot of computation which takes time but doesn't seem to be doing much.

My preference, during updates, is to just leave it. If it hasn't managed to complete in a day or so, then I'll reboot it. The only times I've had to reboot it, the system kicked in, rolled back the update and then it could be done again.

Although and this is important. I always install as many updates as I possibly can before shutting down. I go to the flag in the system tray and tell it to install the updates now. Then when it reboots, it is only installing the updates it could not do whilst windows is running.

I have a feeling that you wound up in the middle of an update which had a system restore in the middle before continuing. You would then have had to restore to a point before the immediate last updates.

As I have my system restore turned off, getting out of an issue is much harder. I prefer not to get into an issue in the first place and I do that by the way that I manage the updates.

Oh and I don't turn my computer off either....

[Workingman]

Suff, I think that I once mentioned this when I first got W7. I got so frustrated with the wait at boot I simply turned the damned thing off....

However, on reboot it started to do all its work over again, it was at that time I learnt about patience being a virtue..... esp with .Net 4!!!

[Suff]

I have just built 12 new machines for my work environment... Windows updates, end to end, every time....

[kathy22]

Thanks for the replies - will just have to be patient with it

Kathy