Hi, I have tried twice to download SP1 for Windows 7 but both attempts have failed .What can I do? TIA
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Problems downloading SP1
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BarryO
, Feb 23 2011 04:16 AM
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Posted 23 February 2011 - 05:00 AM
When you say failed, what actually happened?
My first suggestion would be wait for a while until the servers aren't being hit like they would be at the moment!
My first suggestion would be wait for a while until the servers aren't being hit like they would be at the moment!
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Posted 23 February 2011 - 05:27 AM
It runs for a while , says it's downloading , then the window shrinks to a quarter size there's a red X & it says download of update failed
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Posted 23 February 2011 - 03:12 PM
Hi,
I downloaded SP1 today and it took almost an hour, I think with it just been released there will be lots of folk downloading it, so as Platypus has said wait a while and try then.
I downloaded SP1 today and it took almost an hour, I think with it just been released there will be lots of folk downloading it, so as Platypus has said wait a while and try then.
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Posted 24 February 2011 - 11:50 AM
...and sometimes you will get the "download failed" when that's not true. I received it, rebooted, went back to Win Update...and there was nothing to be downloaded/installed.
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Posted 24 February 2011 - 11:53 AM
When I downloaded SP1 it failed and stopped on 18% several times. I just kept using the try again and it finally completed.I think that the server is being overloaded because all the people trying at the same time to download.
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Posted 24 February 2011 - 08:05 PM
After reading about all the problems downloading/installing SP1 I decided to wait a week or two get the SP1 update.
To my surprise Windows notified me I had updates waiting to be installed. Three critical updates and SP1.
I installed the three updates and restarted my PC. Then I went back to Windows Updates and clicked on the SP1 update. The SP1 update then downloaded about 74MB and then installed without any problems.
The Microsoft server was really slow, some times it would stop for a while then resume downloading. Just be patient when downloading.
You might have less problems by just letting Windows update your system.
To my surprise Windows notified me I had updates waiting to be installed. Three critical updates and SP1.
I installed the three updates and restarted my PC. Then I went back to Windows Updates and clicked on the SP1 update. The SP1 update then downloaded about 74MB and then installed without any problems.
The Microsoft server was really slow, some times it would stop for a while then resume downloading. Just be patient when downloading.
You might have less problems by just letting Windows update your system.
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