After the laptop was busy spinning for about 6 hours, I unwisely interrupted the update process, naively thinking that something had to be wrong on my end.Īfter making a few tweaks and restarting, the laptop was checking for updates with one core fully occupied for more than 24 hours(!!!) before presenting me with the list of about two hundred updates. All the updates applied without a hitch within a few hours, with obvious progress. Installing SP1 and SP2 on top is relatively quick and painless. The recovery partition installs plain Windows Vista. The laptop has 3GB RAM and a 2 GHz Core 2 processor, quite decent for its vintage (circa 2007). Recently I reinstalled an old HP Pavilion laptop from its recovery partition, i.e. To illustrate the problem better, a little story. It’s fine with 50 updates, OK with 100, but with 200 it just starts taking forever. Whatever the algorithm used, it exhibits some form of exponential complexity. The fundamental problem with Windows Update is that it’s highly complex and needs to resolve dependencies between myriad components on every update check. But it does do its job once applied and brings down the time to check for updates to something quite reasonable.
WINDOWS 2000 ISO WITH ARCHIVE.ORG PATCH
Of course the patch isn’t automatically delivered through Windows Update and the download process is designed to remind everyone why ActiveX was such a dumb idea. Microsoft also changed the release cycle to monthly updates, which further reduces the number of variables. Instead of searching for 5 years’ worth of updates since Windows 7 SP1, there are just a few. From personal experience I can say that it works very well, whatever it is called. The point of the patch is that it resets the baseline for Windows Update. Searching for updates for half an hour every time with the CPU going at full tilt must be a not insignificant contribution to global warming.Īs everyone knows by know, Microsoft recently released what amounts to Service Pack 2 for Windows 7.
Not only for humans but also for computers. Updating older (but still supported) Windows versions can be a tedious tasks.
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