Here is a long URL, showing the Microsoft "updates" for Vista. There
are now 48 of them.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...eriod=&sortCriteria=date&nr=20&DisplayLang=en
I will divide that URL up, so that if it does not all arrive as a
single "string", you can string it together, and rebuild it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx
?freetext=Updates&productID=8D7DD8D7-1CA6-4632-BAEF-E7C0750ED02E
&categoryId=&period=&sortCriteria=date&nr=20&DisplayLang=en
NONE OF THE UPDATES WORK.
Here is the reason:
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QUOTE
System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista for x64-based systems
(KB947821) [August 2008]
This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the
Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation
of future updates, service packs, and software.
10/8/2008
#629
System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Vista (KB947821) [August
2008]
This tool is being offered because an inconsistency was found in the
Windows servicing store which may prevent the successful installation
of future updates, service packs, and software.
10/7/2008
#135
UNQUOTE
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That's right. They have discovered that Vista computers have an
"inconsistency" which prevents "Updates" being "configured". Here,
however, they call it "installation".
People download this "Readiness Tool", only to discover that their
system will not install it because it is not "ready".
Notice also, that this is quite a wide-reaching bug. It prevents the
successful installation of service packs and software in addition to
updates.
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QUOTE
Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB949939)
Install this update to enable future updates to install successfully
on all editions of Windows Vista.
4/8/2008
#2123
Update for Windows Vista (KB949939)
Install this update to enable future updates to install successfully
on all editions of Windows Vista.
4/8/2008
#407
UNQUOTE
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That was a separate attempt to enable "Updates" by means of "Updates"
- like driving a car without fuel to fetch fuel.
Notice also the sloppiness. It says "on all editions of Vista".
However, closer scrutiny shows that these two tools ("Readiness Tool"
and "Update") each comes in two versions. One is for the 32-bit
edition, the other for 64-bit. NEITHER is for "ALL editions of Windows
Vista".
To get SOME performance out of Vista, you first have to confirm that
the problems confessed to by Microsoft exist. You have to take the
computer completely offline, and see if the "automatic update
configuring" takes place. This takes the form of a CRASH. "Anoraks" -
kiddies who like to play with broken computers - show off their
"knowledge" by saying that the behaviour is normal. It is not. A
deliberate updating system will not simply crash out of a program.
Consider a typist. He/she is in the middle of typing a long and
difficult piece. Suddenly, the computer stops working. The text
editor/ desktop publishing program crashes, and the system reboots -
or even switches itself completely off. All typing is lost. This is
not normal.
So if your system does this, TURN OFF THE UPDATES. It may take time to
"wake up" to what you have done. With me, it took five days. But
afterwards the system will be more stable.
When planning to put some program into the computer, do NOT let the
"Installation Wizard" do it. Instead, create a directory. Then go to
the CD with the program, and simply copy the pieces across one by one
until every one of them is in the new directory. Now look for the
piece that is described as an "application". Click on it, and it
should run.
If it does not run, the best thing is to empty that directory again,
and delete it.
However, old, stable programs that I used on Windows 95 did work for
much of the time on Vista after I had manually put them in.
The difference between installation and "putting in" is that various
system registries are altered by the "Installation Wizard". Putting a
program in will not dig deep into the system in this way.
You may be puzzled by the numbers #629 #135 #2123 and #407. These are
the "popularity" of each "Update". People download one. It doesn't
work. They try another. Again it doesn't work. They keep going. On and
on. Yes - "Updates" are very popular.
On the page I showed, the default setting is in order of "popularity".
I have changed it to "by date", so that the most recent, and therefore
perhaps least "popular", but maybe most successful "Updates" are
listed first. There are three screens of these "Updates".
This is the code that does it:
&sortCriteria=date
Do they mean "CRITERION"?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/criterion
Charles Douglas Wehner
