Automatic Updates

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Does Microsoft allways have to mess things up more before they eventually fix
them? I FINALLY got Vista runing smooth with the new drivers that recently
were released. I was having problems with programs and games running slow,
especially video in them and opening multiple windows within the programs
themselves. Then my lovely O.S. (or it it P.O.S?) downloaded the mast recent
automatic updates and asked me if I wanted to install them, so I was like
sure updates are good. Well my programs went backwards and were actually
worse than before. Then I decided that, hey I can allways use the restore
point and wallah back to good performance right? WRONG. I did the restore
point and even shut the comp down and restarted it. After this now my
programs are STILL slower than dog crap AGAIN after it took me sever hours to
get it working somewhat top notch. So what I was wondering is Restore doesn't
actually restore your computer to previous point but basically is an
uninstall program that dopesn't seem to get EVERYTHING back to the way it was
at that particulat point in time correct? Do I have to reinstall all the
drivers I downloaded and never update windows via the automating update
prcess again? Oh, and don't even get me started on the random shutdowns and
crashes for absolutely no reason even while the comp is perfectly idle.
 
velosity said:
I was having problems with programs and games
running slow, especially video in them and opening multiple windows within
the programs themselves.
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Guess it's time that you changed your name from "velosity" to "slowdown".

Love and Kisses,
Doris
 
Does Microsoft allways have to mess things up more before they eventually
fix
them? I FINALLY got Vista runing smooth with the new drivers that recently
were released. I was having problems with programs and games running slow,
especially video in them and opening multiple windows within the programs
themselves. Then my lovely O.S. (or it it P.O.S?) downloaded the mast
recent
automatic updates and asked me if I wanted to install them, so I was like
sure updates are good. Well my programs went backwards and were actually
worse than before. Then I decided that, hey I can allways use the restore
point and wallah back to good performance right? WRONG. I did the restore
point and even shut the comp down and restarted it. After this now my
programs are STILL slower than dog crap AGAIN after it took me sever hours
to
get it working somewhat top notch. So what I was wondering is Restore
doesn't
actually restore your computer to previous point but basically is an
uninstall program that dopesn't seem to get EVERYTHING back to the way it
was
at that particulat point in time correct? Do I have to reinstall all the
drivers I downloaded and never update windows via the automating update
prcess again? Oh, and don't even get me started on the random shutdowns
and
crashes for absolutely no reason even while the comp is perfectly idle.
Click to expand...

This is my recommendation for keeping a system running well. First use a
drive imaging program - currently I'm using Acronis True Image Home, version
10; the Business and Ultimate versions of Vista come with Complete PC
backup which is drive imaging, though not as feature rich as ATI.

Regularly image the system. Keep several iterations of images (to do this
with Complete PC Backup you need multiple backup media). Image the system
before making any changes such as windows updates, software
installs/uninstalls and hardware changes. It's particularly important to
archive an image of the system when things are running well.

System restore has it's place and can revert the system to a previous state
in terms of system files, but nothing is perfect, and it's hard to say what
is going on with your system.

When installing updates from windows update, I only do one update at a time,
and test in between. I prefer to let Windows Update scan for updates but
download the individual update files, and execute the update manually rather
than do it through windows update. This is possible for many of the
updates. For a few I just let windows update do the install, like Defender
signature updates and the update to the IE and Outlook 2007 phishing
filters. But any other updates to system components I install offline where
possible.

Your last sentence which states you have random shutdowns and crashes,
indicates there is an underlying problem. What that problem is I don't
know. Drivers? The combination of hardware and drivers? The software and
the combination of software and hardware?

On this system Vista Ultimate has been very stable since installed last
November. I have had several crashes with Explorer when trying to mount and
then explore an image created in Acronis True Image, but that is the only
problem I've had, and it's related to one particular software. I don't need
to do that to restore images or to restore individual files, so it's not a
major inconvenience.

As long as you have those underlying problems that are causing the "random
shutdowns and crashes", it's hard to say what will cause problems in the
future.
 
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