Windows Vista Windows Vista Updates Fail to Install!

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/email/hurd/index.html

CraigM Contact the CEO (URL above)of HP MR. Mark Hurd to resolve the issue without spending additional funds.

 

I agree with you. I build my own as well... When I need a desktop. This is a notebook. A Pavilion DV9225US. This notebook has everything I need, except for WinXP.

 

I sent him an email over a month ago. I never got a reply by email, phone, or smoke signal. I guess the CEO cares as much as the rest of his people. Not at all.

Thanks for the idea, though.

This is an excerpt from the link posted above: "Although I cannot personally respond to your message due to the volume of messages I receive "...

 

The final solution:

As was suggested in this thread, I had to obtain a Windows Vista Ultimate installation disc and do an upgrade installation.

Once that was done, the updates seem to work again.

Amazing how Microsoft cannot fix their OS without re-installing.

By the way, it took nearly five hours to do the upgrade install.

Thank you all for your suggestions and assistance!!

 

So far, so good. Thanks.

And, yes. I have learned a lot from this experience. One of the things I learned is how much more I like XP Pro over Vista Ultimate. I suppose it is just a matter of getting used to the fact that XP never gave me any trouble, and Vista has created havoc within the first month of using it.

 

I just wanted to give an update.

I dumped Vista. I am back to XP.

I used the advice from this thread to get my webcam working. Using the Vista driver did the trick. HP refuses to admit this is a solution.

Thank you all very much for the help. I am very happy to be using XP again. Until Vista has a couple of service packs, I am steering clear of it.

 

Feeling a bit foolish here. With 20 odd GB free, the upgrade is still disabled. Could you clarify the procedure for an in place upgrade?


JJ

 

Evan,

Thanks for the reply. My intent was to do an in place upgrade on top of an existing Vista install (this is what it sounded like was being done on the previous post) I have a full version of Ultimate x86 and hoped to "fix" my bad install.

I have however come on to a lead regarding my porblem of updates not installing. It appears that Vista and WUS do not like the Program Files location to be changes (they need to fix that)

J

 

So, I should be able to do an upgrade install on top of my Vista install? If so, I must have a problem. I cannot get the otion of anything but a new install whether I boot from teh DVD or run setup from Windows. Both methods show upgrade disabled. Thoughts?

J

 

To me, that is just pathetic on the part of Microsoft. I've run XP Pro for years without any problems at all. Vista, on the other hand, requires re-installation more often than I change underwear (figure of speech, honest!).

You are upgrading/repairing eight times a year at the pace you are going. That is not 'smooth' to me.

You?

 

If this is the case, I may try it again. Some of the issues I had, other than the ones discussed in this thread, were things like extremely slow file copying. Even copying a file to the same hard disk took forever. With XP the same file would take a few seconds, in Vista it would take ten minutes. It is a known bug with Vista, that will hopefully be addressed in SP1.

 

Good info to have on the SP release. Thanks.