Another WinDOZE WTF????

[Earth Bound Misfit]

Clean install on a friend's comp... to check for updates to install you must first install an update for Windoze Updates that enables checking for the updates Windoze Updates needs to install...

[gvstn]

1. It has always been that way.

The update checker has to be updated from time to time.

I can't believe you haven't seen this before. It has been that way for years.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

3. I usually integrate (w/DISM) the latest WU Update .CAB / KB into my install media...

Last edited Mon Sep 28, 2015, 08:27 AM - Edit history (2)

I did this at his place spur of the moment so I was unprepared... My current library of KB's etc to keep Post SP1 install media up-to-date includes 173 KB's, (with 43 "hidden&quot drivers, about a dozen programs & more so I never saw this before.

I'm still using the "old" WU Update Client (ver 7.6.7600.320) as the recent slew of "improved" WU Clients add mucho telemetry & spy sh*t ... I'm not "upgrading" 7 to 10 so I don't need those "improvements"... I did upgrade 8.1 (hated it!) to 10 however.

Here are the direct d/l links for WU Client ver 7.6.7600.320 .cab if anyone is interested:

x86:
http://ds.download.windowsupdate.com/v11/3/windowsupdate/selfupdate/WSUS3/x86/Win7SP1/WUClient-SelfUpdate-ActiveX~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~7.6.7600.320.cab
http://ds.download.windowsupdate.com/v11/3/windowsupdate/selfupdate/WSUS3/x86/Win7SP1/WUClient-SelfUpdate-Aux-TopLevel~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~7.6.7600.320.cab
http://ds.download.windowsupdate.com/v11/3/windowsupdate/selfupdate/WSUS3/x86/Win7SP1/WUClient-SelfUpdate-Core-TopLevel~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~7.6.7600.320.cab

x64:
http://ds.download.windowsupdate.com/v11/3/windowsupdate/selfupdate/WSUS3/x64/Win7SP1/WUClient-SelfUpdate-ActiveX~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~7.6.7600.320.cab
http://ds.download.windowsupdate.com/v11/3/windowsupdate/selfupdate/WSUS3/x64/Win7SP1/WUClient-SelfUpdate-Aux-TopLevel~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~7.6.7600.320.cab
http://ds.download.windowsupdate.com/v11/3/windowsupdate/selfupdate/WSUS3/x64/Win7SP1/WUClient-SelfUpdate-Core-TopLevel~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~7.6.7600.320.cab

[hobbit709]

2. Does that all the time.

[BlueJazz]

4. Oh for pete's sake. You have to install the install so you can install the install that allows you..

....to install the install that installs the install.

Boy, some of you people are just soooo un-nerdy.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

5. *SNICKER*

[-none]

6. The problem is actually in the other peace of hardware.

That dust magnet that the 'owner' keeps kicking, that is sitting in the desk knee hole, filtering the air of dust. Those strange number sequences on that pretty blue screen are a big help for IT. Write them down before throwing the guilty part out of the window.
What that BSOD really means is shoddy programming. An error occurred that was not properly trapped and dealt with.