Re: “Windows 7 is just Vista that works and has yet another set of useless, gratuitous GUI changes to make people think they’re getting something new.
While you won’t hate 7 as bad as Vista, if you love XP, you’re not really going to like 7.
7 also runs like a pig out of the box, and like Vista, boots very slowly and shuts down slowly..............”
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I am not tech-savvy, for starters, but liked Windows 7 initially when I got it in late ‘09. My main complaint is that I am constantly told I must download/install ‘updates’ and that’s fine when it goes easily and quickly but once in awhile the updates ‘fail’ over and over again. Their instructions make no sense to me and one time I called and was finally told how to dump a specific update because I ‘didn’t need it.’
The last time I tried using the e-mail contact system and their response was unintelligible (from some nice guy who is obviously in India). I can’t follow the instructions and wouldn’t dream of it anyway.
Question is this: how important is it to worry about all these updates? Can I just ignore them if they ‘fail?’ I can make no sense of this on my own. Thx.
“Can I just ignore them if they ‘fail?’ “
Most often it’s one of the plethora of .net updates that fail and endlessly cycle. For any update, you can go into the updating system and right click on it and mark it hidden so it won’t update again.
To actually fix .net update problems, MS tells you to go to add/remove and remove all .net stuff and start over to fix those update problems. If you don’t have an app that needs .net them it doesn’t really matter. As for any other updates, hard to say how critical they are.