97 updates?? You gotta be kidding.

[PepperElf]

to be honest there are some xp machines that CAN'T be updated.

Had a customer with an HP mini running XP. had to tell them we couldn't update it for them cos the solid state hard drive was 16G and the update was 15G.

sadly... i have that hp mini too. ain't used it in over a year tho. i rather regret buying it.

[Shalom]

How did you look up prescriptions for the next 6 hours?

Used a different computer.

We don't use that one much anyway; my workstation is at the server, and the tech/manager has another computer at his end of the counter. The front one is mostly used if there's a patient standing at the counter, which isn't all that common: most scripts here are delivered.

But it just goes to show how long it's been since anyone actually paid attention the thing. I've got another, similar (and longer) rant coming up regarding the server itself, but that's for another thread.

[TheSHAD0W]

How did you look up prescriptions for the next 6 hours?

Update runs in the background.

Yeah, that's about how many updates it's been since SP3 came out. Not surprised.

[Raveni]

How did you look up prescriptions for the next 6 hours?

[Pedersen]

I think my current record is 150 updates. Of course, that was from an XP SP2 installation, fresh, and installing absolutely every possible update. There's a reason I hate setting up a new machine on XP.

[barainga]

Sounds like the computers we use at pizza place.

And they wonder why they crash all the time.

[Shalom]

We keep one computer running XP up at the front counter for the cashier to look up prescriptions, etc. This machine is basically used as a terminal for remote access to the server, which is under the back counter basically in front of my knees, and nothing else that I know of.

Last night, as I was shutting down the store for the night, I go to log this remote session out. As I do so, I notice the little yellow "!" icon that says windoze wants to update itself. Now the remote sessions run fullscreen, so the only time you ever see the underlying screen is when you log the session out, so I can see why nobody noticed this.

I click on it. It says it wants to install SP3.

!!?

How long has this thing remained unpatched? XPSP3 came out in 2008 for crying out loud.

Anyhoo, I tell it to do its thing and go home for the night. I know from experience that installing SP3 takes a while.

Come back this morning to a Reboot Required screen. Do this, go through the IE8 setup (which is a hard stop, nothing will proceed until you either give it what it wants or push the bugger-off button, and not one of the choices presented is at all critical. One of the peeves I have with MS, but whatever.) Now it wants to download the "improved update software" (read: the validation tool that tells MS if you're running a pirate version), and it installs that, finished. So next I re-run the updater, see what else it needs. It sits there a worrying long time. Finally:

"Downloading update 1 of 97 . . . "

You gotta be kidding me.