Re: Time to update Windows 2000? - 37 updates

From: Edward A. Feustel (efeustel_at_direcway.com)
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 06:17:44 -0400

"vkott" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2a1f501c46564$f6c1af80$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I had security issues with Windows 2000 professional.
> I was advised to update my Windows.
> I went to MSoft site and found 37 updates reccommended
> including Service Pak 4.
> I downloaded everything and rebooted for updates to take
> effect.
> My computer is doing the update process on reboot and has
> gone over 4 hours.
> Is this normal? How long could this many updates take?
> It is using the disk drive heavily.
>
Service pack 4 can cause a download of upto 100+ MB. You do not say
what speed download you have. If it is slow, this might account for your
problem.
Normally with such an update, you must install this separately. Is this what
you are doing?

Ed

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