07 August 2010

updating a Vista nstallation

I've been working on updating Mary & Victor's computer for days now. They got it three years ago from those Blue Hippo people. It has Vista basic and 512 megabytes of ram. 1000 times the ram as a working computer of 20 years ago and it would barely run.
I put 2 gigs in it and it runs at least; not fast, but running. This AMD X64 system has not been updated since 2007. I've spent the last two days downloading, installing and re-booting. I am just at the point of trying to get a service pak 1 to take. AMD's seem to have a problem with this. Maybe Dells too, according to MS forums.
If I were doing this for money it would be embarrassing.

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