Dear Vista, die in a fire.

This is stupid part of IT side work where the customer only has a Vista OEM install disc.  I suppose I could should will install XP…

  • Ddyer

    You just need to keep restarting.  They usually sort out eventually.  If you download the service pack instead of using update, it makes it easier.

    • lj_68

      Beat me to it, as in, why is he/she using update instead of installing SP1 right after the clean install. Isn’t that IT101?

      And, uh, the failed updates? Nothing new there, really Just locked files. XP did the same thing just didn’t tell you it failed. Told you to reboot instead.

      Not that I love Vista but this, well, obvious and low level.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Pehden David Haygood

    Screw that just upgrade to windows 7.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tommi-Henriksen/1440962761 Tommi Henriksen

    Vista is death!
     

  • skywalk

    lol some people never learn… vista? really? install norton on top of vista and you will surely suicide

    • lj_68

       Customer OEM disk – they didn’t have a choice.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1023827696 Bob Thayer

    Had a similar problem. Long story short, I had to format the drive and start over. Installed SP1 (then SP2), bypassing any other Windows Updates.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Kalanac John Chapman

    I had vista on my laptop, dual booted with Ubuntu. The hard drive had a recovery partition and so I formatted the ‘doze partition and reinstalled following some quirky behaviour and a load of clutter I just couldn’t be bother sorting through (I mostly used it for games anyway). Fresh install, all going well, fifty billion updates required, nothing unusual there. Left the laptop updating. Hours later the updates finish, reboot the laptop and suddenly the wifi no longer works. Booted Ubuntu, all was fine, wifi connecting. Back into Windows, nada. Downloaded fresh drivers for the wifi adapter, still nothing. Updates must be a package of new ways to screw up your computer ¬_¬

    I’ve since removed windows and the recovery partition in a fit of rage.