This post is nothing but a rant about how incredibly backwards update priority using Windows Updates is. I just did a fresh install of Vista x64 on my development machine yesterday, and I had it go ahead and download updates off of our local WSUS server. Now I’d personally expect Windows Update to go and install the Service Pack first, since all updates up to the point of SP1’s release are included in SP1. No, I’d be wrong. Instead it grabbed roughly 3.5GB of updates and addons (86 in total), none of which were the service pack. So I went and spent the next 3 hours letting those install. Reboot and run Windows Update again. 34 new updates show up, again, no service pack. I would just go onto the WSUS update share and grab the service pack there, rather than download the 700MB+ x64 edition service pack off of Microsoft’s website, but WSUS uses near random GUID’s for the filenames of every update rather than the KB# with version. So I’ve now spent about 4.5 hours waiting for windows to install updates and I haven’t even gotten to the service pack I wanted to start with!
Is it really so hard to give priority to roll-up packages and service packs?
Comments: (3)
Andy on Thu, Jun 11th, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Microsoft doens’t know what they are doing half the time
Browning rifles on Thu, Jun 18th, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Microsoft Windows Update is not working. When I check for updates I get an error message that says “The site cannot continue because one or more of these Windows services is not running.
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