Stupid Windows 7 update

[Soundwave]

Hey guys,

I have a new spanky windows 7 laptop & it has decided today to do what is quite possibly the longest update ever

It has now been on the closing down/installing screen for about an hour
Has anyone had this happen yet?
If not am I safe to just shut the bastard thing down without destroying the laptop?

Ta

Neil

[speedlolita]

Turning it off and on again won't destroy the laptop, the update will just fail.

I personally turn off automatic updates and only update per service pack. I don't run AV either.

I don't wear a tinfoil hat though.

[Sane]

That's probably not the safest way to do things though .

[Soundwave]

That's probably not the safest way to do things though .

Lol I thought it wasn't.

It finally shut down though...took over an hour & a half to sort itself out.

I've now turned auto update off...no way I can sit through that again

Neil

[speedlolita]

Good stuff.

[eastyy]

Lol I thought it wasn't.

It finally shut down though...took over an hour & a half to sort itself out.

I've now turned auto update off...no way I can sit through that again

Neil

with my fiances computer it took about that long to update i just assumed it had a huge backlog of updates .....i would imagine now any updates would take a few minutes

[Mayhem]

I've had a W7 laptop for 18 months and I can't say any update has been an issue. Guess something just went a little awry there.

[speedlolita]

It might of had to download the entirety of Service Pack 1. I imagine this was the case.

[randombs]

Not sure what your update settings are but there's the option to notify about updates before or after downloading. I have mine set to download first so that when I do the updates they're all ready to go, although sometimes it says it's ready to install and when I click next it downloads, so could well be what speedy said(Service Pack download size via Microsoft Update depends on how many updates have been installed since the last one).

Possibly similar: My uncle called me a few days ago and said his Vista laptop took ages to shutdown while installing updates the night before - around a half hour - and it took about 10-15 mins on the next boot just to reach the Vista login screen, after which it sat on the 'configuring updates' bit for a while longer.

[charlesr]

Stop using the Stupid Windows 7. Upgrade to the Really Clever (like Charles' jokes) Windows 7.

[EvilBoris]

I've found the windows 7 updates to be fairly infreqent once they are done, I'm guessing you are getting a service pack upgrade.

Office Updates on the other hand... you'll get at least one every day if you have the full suite installed, these updates are done by Windows update too.

[randombs]

Or, as MS likes to call it, 64-bit Professional

[Fader209]

May as well ask this question here:

Got my PC with Windows 7 in Dec and realised there is no actual Windows back up disc should I need to reformat. What do I doooooooooooo?

[charlesr]

Did you get it from a reputable supplier? If so, it should have a recovery partition - when windows is booting, hit whatever button it tells you and then it will put everything back to square 1 from a saved image.

This also allows the vendor e.g. dell/HP to install all sorts of crap on your machine for example, changing the microsoft remote assistance help page to divert you to HPs support line instead.....