Windows Vista, or "Windows Elastoplast"
 

I think it's the latter. Every morning when I boot up the computer, it's found MORE updates for Vista. And about every four days or so, it wants to close down to instal them, you know the message, "Windows needs to Close. It will close in 10.00 minutes and counting".

What the hell is wrong with Microsoft if after so long they STILL need patches for what was their flagship o/s?

Do the updates manually. That way you only need to do it once a month and at a time of your choosing. Simples .....

Dave

But why does it need so MANY?

Comes with the Microsoft territory, like Adobe and Java which are almost as bad.

You've just reminded to to click the update icon in the bottom right of the screen thats been flashing at me for god knows how long. (auto download, but manual install ). :D

I believe its not just Vista; XP at one point was just as bad (no longer supported now so no more proper updates). Not had the benefit of toying with Win7 yet; got a PC on order due by the end of the month with Win7 installed, so I'll see if thats any better.

Its also depends on what other Microsoft products are installed, as it uses the same update tool. Things like office, bit defender, works, media player, silverlight etc. So the more Microsoft stuff you have installed, the more updates it'll do.

just checked: 1 important update. 39 optional updates....34 of which are language pack updates...Might come in handy, you never know a Lithuanian may decide to use my PC one day :rolleyes:

He he, had a client drop in a Vista laptop that's never been connected to the internet:

96 important update: 674.4mb :eek:

It started downloading at lunch time, and its still installing as I type (96th update) :o

I have a laptop running W7 and the updates are far less than either XP or Vista. Infact, I can only remember once since I got it about a month ago. A couple of nice things about W7 is start up takes less than a minute and shutdown about 20 seconds (At the moment anyway :D).

MMT: those times are similar, or maybe a bit longer, than mine on Vista.

The nature of the MS beast, its the biggest so its the one all the hackers hit.....

Well Jeff, that's a lot better than my Vista machines. I have an XP desktop that takes at least 10 minutes to start up :D