Windows 7: Update Install Deja Vu

Updated: See solution at the end

Check out this update install history picture:

I seem to be in a bit of a rut… I’ve installed “Security Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1” many many times! Oddly enough, I’m not sure why yet.

I get notified that I need to install the update:

I install the

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Vista and Windows 2008 Service Pack 2 BETA

As announced at the Vista Team Blog, brave folks and testers can now get their hands on the Service Pack 2 beta for Vista and Windows 2008. While it was announced earlier in the week, the files just recently showed up.

Note: You must have Service Pack 1 already installed. This is not a cumulative

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More Fun with Microsoft Update: 0×80072EE2

I had to do a factory restore on a Windows XP Tablet PC today. That, in itself, wasn’t all that tough (we’ll ignore the wasted few hours when I mistakenly installed XP Pro [not Tablet] on it…). After the recovery was completed, I ran into an interesting challenge with Microsoft Update though.

The restore process left

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Windows 2008: First Update Fails

I’ve had this happen to me a few times now. Fresh Windows Server 2008 install wants you to go online and get updates. Yet I am faced with this error:

The “dreaded” Code 80244022. OK, I dunno how dreaded that is, but I hate long numeric code errors. They usually correlate to a high p.i.t.a. factor.

If

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Out of Band Critical Update

This doesn’t happen very often so when it does I like to help spread the word. Microsoft released a “critical” update today impacting all supported OS’s from Windows 2000 through the Windows 7 pre-beta.

If you’re a Windows user or manage Windows machines, it seems like you should plan on getting this one and rebooting some

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