hi, i however can believe that from 3-6-07 to present day (incuding today i
have recieved 44 updates not including office .i have had my laptop since
march this year so god knows how many updates in total i have had . i suppose
it all depends on weather the os has been updated while it was sitting on a
shelf waiting to be sold it could have been installed in a laptop then boxed
up and left untill it was sold to you but a later one will be more upto date
because the os was installed more recently .the worrying thing is when sp1
comes out it will include all the updates released to date so i would take a
short holiday while that gets downloaded ,according to a white paper i read
yesterday it will be about 7gig alot of which can be reclaimed after the
instalation ,possibly because the updates are already installed (so why
bother including them )
--
martyb


"Erwin Moller" wrote:
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> Punkzip wrote:[color=green]
> > Just got a brand new Sony Vaio notebook computer with Vista Home Premium
> > installed. I am not exaggerating when I say that my hard disk thrashed
> > for a solid day and a half doing updates. Kind of spoiled the fun of
> > getting a new machine. I expected to be able to fire this baby up and
> > enjoy it.
> >
> > Just think if I bought a new car and spent a day and a half at the
> > garage doing tune-ups before I could drive it. There's got to be a
> > better way.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents.
> >
> > David[/color]
>
> Hi David,
>
> I think something is wrong with that laptop or you have an extremely
> slow internet connection.
> My Vista (also Home Premium) needed a little tuning/updating, but was
> ready within 30 minutes (including all updates/restarts).
> I can't think of a good reason yours is so slow. :-/
>
> Could it be faulty hardware?
> Maybe you should do a benchmark or two?
> If in doubt, contact the shop where you bought it. It is new after all.
> I say this because I remember I spend many many hours getting a modem
> working, only to discover the hardware was broken.
> It is called 'newness'. ;-)
>
> Regards and good luck,
> Erwin Moller
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