No matter how many times I run Windows Update, no matter how many hours I spend downloading and installing updates, I get this screen when I get part way through the installation process for Windows 7:
I spent four hours last night with Windows Update downloading and installing (what I thought were) 80 updates. Only 63 of them were successful. Then, this morning, there were 6 more updates, and 5 of them were successful. So I tried again. This time there were 16 updates and all of them were successful. Voila! I figured. What could be the problem now? Surely Windows Update gives me ALL of the available updates when I go to Windows Update, right?
Apparently not.
Again, the same message that says I have to have Service Pack 1 installed. So when I go to Microsoft, they tell me "If you only have one computer, don't do it here, do it through Windows Update." Well, what the hell do you think I've been doing for the last day and a half?
Oh, look...three more updates were installed successfully while I was typing this. Do we think those were the LAST three updates I needed? I think it's unlikely.
Why doesn't it just....work? You know, download something, click, click, click, enter some information, and it works. Why can't Microsoft just make software that works?
Here we to go restart (again). Because, God knows, you can't expect a computer to have the latest and greatest updates without you going through the reboot process for the umpteenth time.
So how can I actually get Service Pack 1 or 2 or 3 or whatever they're at this morning if it's not through something called Windows Update?