Re: Complaint about update site

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[If you think that's bad, wait till you apply for Social Security and Medicare benefits.]

Yes, you have to jump through quite a number of hoops to get a new install fully up-to-date. You can thank the millions who are using pirated copies of Windows for this.

Understand, too, that some updates require a previous update to be installed and the machine rebooted before these can be installed.
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~PA Bear

Rodger & Tedi MacKendrick wrote:
Over the weekend I helped several friends with their computer problems. In
two cases they decided they would like to upgrade to windows xp which was
ok with me. We installed both XP's with little or no problems.now I'm for
redundancy when your deleting a file. But someone should take a look at
the windows update site. After installing fresh windows xp in both
computers and then you go to the windows update site your greeted with a
message saying "Windows update is downloading and installing the updated
software". You are asked twice to install the software update. Saying
install once wasn't enough. The your greeted with the Windows Genuine
Advantage Validation Tool a 433kb file that after installation requires
five, yes five interactions from the user to complete. Those two updates
along takes three windows update scans, two downloads and seven customer
interactions to complete. Then and only then can you get to the 23 or
more updates required after SP2. Why couldn't Microsoft make those
processes a little more painless? 

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