This is at the very least the 6th, or even much longer than that, month in a row that there doesn't appear to be any errors or issues updating x64 W7 SP1. There was a period back in the winter when it seemed like several months in a row there were errors. Including the four optionals, the download, installation and reboot(s) for the 19 updates took 9 min and 50 seconds. I never bothered to time it before! One thing I noticed, however, that I never noticed before (reason for the "reboot(s)" plural), is it rebooted itself immediately after the manual reboot. Not sure if that was some sort of a glitch or not. Anyway, everything seems to be working great. Cyberfox Speed-Battled 1449.xx!
I used to get multiple Windows Configuring Failed errors the past few months. Last night, the Super Tuesday patches installed without event.
That's how it is normally for me, but this month there was a failed update I had to manually re-install.
Yes, but I wanted this update to be successful, and in this case manual re-install is more efficient.
I'm not sure I understand. A restore would take me 2 minutes. A reinstall (plus tweaks) would take me a week.
When an update fails to configure, the change is reverted within a reboot. Sometimes it mysteriously gets installed anyway - why, don't ask cause I don't know.
I do on occasion like other posters here find that some updates won't install. But, this is very rare. However I can't remember the last time an update actually caused problems.
So these borkfest Tuesday patches are safe then? I may wait a few more days before installing just to be sure on my Win 7 desktop.
I would probably wait. I always do a couple of machines to test, and roll out the rest after a few days. I had one machine that hung for 2 hours on the reboot, and then I had to force it down and reboot. Fortunately it came back. And then there is the case of multiple installs of KB3005628.
I'm so glad I haven't installed these borks on my desktop box yet. Why do I get the feeling M$ doesn't really check pre-Win 8 patches anymore? I'm also glad my laptop now runs Ubuntu.