What's wrong with Windows Update?
Feb. 26th, 2011 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inanedirkA few months back I had trouble updating the latest patches. The update tool gave a cryptic error message, so, you know, you go ahead and google it.
That particular error had been reported before for Windows Vista (I'm using 7). I tried the suggested fixes anyway, didn't help.
In the end I actually contacted Microsoft's e-Mail support. They told me to do what I'd already tried, then suggested an in-place upgrade installation, or some such thing. Well, that didn't work out - it got stuck at one point so I had to reboot, even though it'd warned not to (by getting stuck I mean I let it run a day without it getting past that point).
I think in the end I did a re-install.
And a few days ago I tried installing Service Pack 1. Of course, it fails to install. Yay...
That particular error had been reported before for Windows Vista (I'm using 7). I tried the suggested fixes anyway, didn't help.
In the end I actually contacted Microsoft's e-Mail support. They told me to do what I'd already tried, then suggested an in-place upgrade installation, or some such thing. Well, that didn't work out - it got stuck at one point so I had to reboot, even though it'd warned not to (by getting stuck I mean I let it run a day without it getting past that point).
I think in the end I did a re-install.
And a few days ago I tried installing Service Pack 1. Of course, it fails to install. Yay...
