So, I only use windows @ work, and it confuses me what the relationship between applying the updates from the Control Panel and what applying them from the Shutdown button is.
I recently obtained an HP machine W7 OS that still has the recovery partition intact, and I reimaged the machine and tried to do the 1.6Gb of updates over night.
Being a top notch OS, it decided "just to stop" because it was tired, so I powered off and retried the updates. Several failed attempts and stalls I finally got it to "near modern" levels; I checked the "installed updates" and many were failed to I figure it is all garbaged up. I understand I might have to do 10 or 20 iterations of patches since I am starting with a 8-10 year aged copy.
Is there a strategy to applying updates? Should I be going to the control panel and installing them or do the shutdown and install? Are those both referring to the same updates? The control panel for updates seems to misrepresent things a lot, saying it is downloading updates, when it is, in fact, not. It is probably "evaluating whether the packages need updating and if some of the packages have already been download" Should I just stay away from that?
I'm not an idiot when it comes to this stuff; I just don't understand why patching a machine seems so nebulous
Just looking for some explanations, best practices, stories from the trenches, and maybe a hug...
I recently obtained an HP machine W7 OS that still has the recovery partition intact, and I reimaged the machine and tried to do the 1.6Gb of updates over night.
Being a top notch OS, it decided "just to stop" because it was tired, so I powered off and retried the updates. Several failed attempts and stalls I finally got it to "near modern" levels; I checked the "installed updates" and many were failed to I figure it is all garbaged up. I understand I might have to do 10 or 20 iterations of patches since I am starting with a 8-10 year aged copy.
Is there a strategy to applying updates? Should I be going to the control panel and installing them or do the shutdown and install? Are those both referring to the same updates? The control panel for updates seems to misrepresent things a lot, saying it is downloading updates, when it is, in fact, not. It is probably "evaluating whether the packages need updating and if some of the packages have already been download" Should I just stay away from that?
I'm not an idiot when it comes to this stuff; I just don't understand why patching a machine seems so nebulous
Just looking for some explanations, best practices, stories from the trenches, and maybe a hug...