Re: Time to update Windows 2000? - 37 updates

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 07/09/04 

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 05:00:28 -0700

Ed,
My connection speed is a business DSL at 768MB.
The Microsoft site showed Service Pak4 needed to be
installed first. I downloaded Service Pak4 and 37 updates
and then did install. I thought it would do the Service
Pak4 and then the other updates. Things went fine with
the download of everything - it took 20-30 minutes. My
system was saving a backup of files also. Then I was
prompted that I would need to reboot for changes to take
effect. I did the reboot and left the computer after
nearly five hours with it still chugging away with a very
busy hard drive and high CPU utilization.
This seemed very long!! I hope things are not messed up!
What happens if I power off and on again?
Thanks, Van

>-----Original Message-----
>
>"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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