Updating Windows

[swany]

Vista seems to have more than one update a day as of late, maybe they are giving us 7 a little at a time.

I'm with most folks when it comes to don't fix it if it's not broke.

My wifes XP had it for two years and nothing has gone wrong even though it does not have SP3 in it. Course I does not go on line at all.

Two vista laptops, nothing goes wrong, only time they have been on line is for Hoster neither has had updates lately.

[Musicman51]

I'm with you guys on this one. My daughter is over seas in the US Army. And i fired up her old XP the other evening. I did a "Service Pak3" update, now her computer will not shut off! When i go to shut it down, it's just like i hit restart. So i restored it to a time before the up dates. It's fine again. She told me in no uncertain words to leave my pinkys off her puter...sheesh just trying to help........

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Musicman51

I'm with you guys on this one. My daughter is over seas in the US Army. And i fired up her old XP the other evening. I did a "Service Pak3" update, now her computer will not shut off! When i go to shut it down, it's just like i hit restart. So i restored it to a time before the up dates. It's fine again. She told me in no uncertain words to leave my pinkys off her puter...sheesh just trying to help........

i had that problem when i downloaded the sp3 update 3x, mine got the blue screen.i ended up re-installing everything.there are some steps to follow when updating to sp3 to be installed right,but anyway i do update mine once a month only the custom updates, and i always ignore the sp3 updates, and i also turned off the auto update so it wont load the sp3..

[capnvic]

Originally Posted by billyo

i had that problem when i downloaded the sp3 update 3x, mine got the blue screen.i ended up re-installing everything.there are some steps to follow when updating to sp3 to be installed right,but anyway i do update mine once a month only the custom updates, and i always ignore the sp3 updates, and i also turned off the auto update so it wont load the sp3..

Should always check with the mfr to see if there are any hardware updates (BIOS, video, systemboard) before installing a service pack.

[ddouglass]

Part of the problem with Service Pack upgrades is they are written for those with standard installs of Windows. HP, Dell and Gateway all use a small section of the hard drive to store a bootable restoral drive on their laptops and even some of their desktop models have had it. These mess up the install of service packs and will cause a blue screen error.
Those who see a constant restarting after loading the service pack are also getting the blue screen error, but their Windows is set to reboot on error.
How do you get around this? Microsoft did post a fix for this in their support knowledge base. I don't have the link handy, but you can search their support knowledge base for it.
As far as Hardware updates go always check with the mfg of the item before excepting a Hardware update from Microsoft. The mfg will have the current version of the update available.

[Musicman51]

Thanks for all the help guys. You know, i got Hoster to work correctly now. And i'm just not going to take the chance. I have enough upgrades, and i did everything that MTU says i should do for Vista. I'm just going to use it and not worry about upgrades. We'll see what's in store for the next Hoster version. If i need to do something at that time, then i will....George

[billyo]

i just plainly ignore the sp3 updates, as far as updating the hardware i always go to the mfr. site..now the mini laptop i bought has preloaded with sp3