Reply to: Windows 7 Updates - FFS!

[Paddy]

Why not upgrade to XP?

6 bit to 8 bit punch card

[stek]

Windows 7 Updates - FFS!

Sssshhhhh!

Is this where I mention the size of Xcode downloads?

Linux can offer some quite meaty downloads too.

Xcode is dev tho, like a VS download, not ur average punters requirement.

Having said that, the last AIX TL was like gigs so they're all at it!

[Sysman]

One word, OSX....

Sssshhhhh!

Is this where I mention the size of Xcode downloads?

Linux can offer some quite meaty downloads too.

[stek]

Windows 7 Updates - FFS!

One word, OSX....

[Sysman]

I had better check the system I haven't fired up since then...

Fired it up and it told me that Windows wasn't activated, and Security Essentials will stop running in 30 days.

It gave me a link to download and run something called WindowsActivationUpdate.exe

Dunno what that does but it took its time running.

I hadn't changed any hardware, but I had just upgraded VirtualBox Guest Additions to reflect a new version of VirtualBox. Maybe that triggered something.

Dunno what Windows 7 is up to either. It's just spent a quarter of an hour using 18% CPU doing, er, something...

Ho hum.

[suityou01]

Bloody updates killed my home machine. Had to system restore to get it working again

Why not upgrade to XP?

[administrator]

Bloody updates killed my home machine. Had to system restore to get it working again

[Sysman]

Ok, admittedly I haven't touched this PC for 7 days but WTF?

It's now downloading 218.5 MB of updates.

Christ on a ******* Bike, what is in those damn updates?

Patch Tuesday this week, wasn't it?

I had better check the system I haven't fired up since then...

I did a full reinstall on a laptop yesterday. When I ran Windows Update it told me it was bringing down 96 patches.

I went and did some cooking instead of watching that.

[stek]

Ms works?

Not works - there was MS Office 4.2 Standard and Enterprise I think - difference was Access ISTR

[stek]

six - I looked on line!

[suityou01]

I think Windows for Workgroups was on eight 3.5" 1.44mb floppies

MS Office 4.2 was on 26 or 32 for the not standard version - forget what it was called....

Ms works?

[Sysman]

How many floppies was Windows 3.11 on?

About a dozen as I recall.

But I might be thinking of my Tosh laptop which didn't come with a separate set of Windows floppies. It was one of those distributions which offered to create a full set of installation floppies the first time you fired it up, so possibly had extra drivers which wouldn't be included in the standard MS distro.

[stek]

Ummm, that's a good question - I think 3.1 was on 5-6 x 5.25'' floppies (1.2 MB each).

I think Windows for Workgroups was on eight 3.5" 1.44mb floppies

MS Office 4.2 was on 26 or 32 for the not standard version - forget what it was called....

[AtW]

How many floppies was Windows 3.11 on?

Ummm, that's a good question - I think 3.1 was on 5-6 x 5.25'' floppies (1.2 MB each).

[stek]

How many floppies was Windows 3.11 on?