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re: Updates Issue Friday, October 9, 2009 at 11:53 am Posted by John Liebson (845 messages posted) Solution #1: Stop trying to install updates.... (Possible) Solution #2 may be found here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Troubleshoot-problems-with-installing-updates (Possible) Solution #3 may be found here, a source you have found on your own: Google "vista update problems". On Friday, October 9, 2009 at 10:54 am, Kevin Andries wrote: >I recently tried to install windows vista updates on a dell 1525 laptop. While it >was downloading the updates it froze up and crashed vista. It is a new install of >Windows vista home basic. (Windows and hardware drivers). I managed to restart the >computer, but when I went to download the updates, same thing again. Any thoughts >on why this is happening? The firewall is set to accept the updates. A note on the >hardware, 1.8Ghz Celeron chip, 3GB Ram, 320GB HDD. All drivers installed. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Updates Issue Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 9:28 am Posted by Kevin Andries (320 messages posted) Kevin Andries Thanks John, the computer is running fine without the updates. kc_andries On Friday, October 9, 2009 at 11:53 am, John Liebson wrote: > >Solution #1: Stop trying to install updates.... > >(Possible) Solution #2 may be found here: > >http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/Troubleshoot-problems-with-installing-updates > >(Possible) Solution #3 may be found here, a source you have found on your own: Google >"vista update problems". > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Updates Issue Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 9:35 am Posted by John Liebson (845 messages posted) Be advised that, although the computer may appear to be working fine, that may not necessarily be the case, due to security problems and other assorted maladies inherent in Vista (and other OS products as well.) You may, for example, find that certain programs will not update unless specific Vista updates have been installed, you may find your computer subject to virus and trojan attacks, and so forth and so on (and on and on and on...). I realize that there are users who never install updates, and seem, somehow, to manage quite well. I also know that there have been instances of installed Vista updates that have themselves, created problems. In short, I think it is up to you as to how you decide to proceed, leaving things as they are or figuring out (and, perhaps, even solving) the problem(s). De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum - Of two evils, the lesser must always be chosen (Thomas a Kempis) [No, I don't know which is the lesser!] On Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 9:28 am, Kevin Andries wrote: >Thanks John, the computer is running fine without the updates. > > > > kc_andries [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum