|
So my new lappy has been painfully trying to update itself for the last couple of days. Started off well enough, albeit a big update, then couldn't 'Configure' them. Right now it won't let me un-select the updates I don't want to install, and then every time I shut the bugger down the same crap begins. It installs 7 updates, then tries to configure them, fails and I am back to square one. The machine has been unusable for two days.
Honestly, I would punch anyone I met from MS right now. Not because it is the right thing to do, not for vengeance, just as a real-life representation of the gross lack of consideration for your fellow man and random f**kyou-ism epitomised by anyone who would foist a system this unreliable, used by so many people, upon the world, in this condition.
It has been years. YEARS. And we poor sods are still dealing with this malarkey.
That is all. Phew.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
|
|
|
|
|
Breath deeply. It could be worse, you could be using a 'MacBook Air' whatever that is.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rob Philpott wrote: you could be using a 'MacBook Air' whatever that is.
Oh, it's a Merkin thing.
It comes with cardboard chips and a ton of sugar-water.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
For what it's worth, when I come to Windows Update problems:
(in a command prompt)
- net stop wuauserv
- del %systemdrive%\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\*.*
- chkdsk c: /r
- (answer yes to question)
- shutdown -r -f -t 0
- (re-try to update Windows once rebooted)
No memory stick has been harmed during establishment of this signature.
|
|
|
|
|
Awesome, thanks.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
|
|
|
|
|
I would claim it's the %systemdrive%\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\*.* that needs to be deleted.
Datastore is the database keeping track on which updates you actually have installed.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
|
|
|
|
|
Indeed, yet practice shows that problems often occur in the .edb database. I use this small snippet more than once in a while, and it has until now proven efficient. Deleting the Download directory can't hurt, anyway.
No memory stick has been harmed during establishment of this signature.
|
|
|
|
|
Brilliant.
I've become so used to not using command prompts on Windows that I would probably never have got there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
"Hard alternative to duck, with capacity to look forward."(9)
Not too hard, but may be tricky.
---------------------------------
Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
|
|
|
|
|
Horoscope
hard - h
alternative - or
duck - 0
capacity - scope
|
|
|
|
|
 Good one I thought it was difficult.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
|
|
|
|
|
Well done
---------------------------------
Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
|
|
|
|
|
I've installed it. I see the new apps. I see the distracting new wallpaper.
But I can't see anything else different.
I think I should ask for my money back.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
|
Chris Maunder wrote: I've installed it. I see the new apps. I see the distracting new wallpaper.
But I can't see anything else different.
I think I should ask for my money back.
What are you on about Maunder? I can't be arsed Googling your cryptic title clues.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
|
|
|
|
|
|
Super Lloyd wrote: it's an iThing
So it's about Apple. I had no idea.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
|
|
|
|
|
I presumed it was Windows 8.1.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
|
|
|
|
|
Almost.[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
|
|
|
|
|
Maybe there should be an Apple icon for the Message Type so those of us not in the cult can ignore.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
|
|
|
|
|
this would be oh soooo fantastic!!!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Didn't I read somewhere that Apple was doing a great scene about this upgrade being free?
In my head popped up the idea that if it was so crappy and feature poor that they thought it would be better just to give it away and make a show out of it 
|
|
|
|
|
Aren't there tabs in Finder?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
___________________________________________
Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
|
|
|
|
|
Actually you're right - I should have mentioned that.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
