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From: SomeOldGuy on 2 Aug 2010 14:20
"Jack's stuff" wrote:

> Boy it is really getting to be a pain-in-the-'you-know-what' to keep getting
> all these d---n updates each week..
>
> How could Microsoft have that many holes in its operating system????
>
> Each time my computer downloads the updates it takes a long, long time and
> then the computer shuts down and restarts.
>
> After that, in most cases there is a complete slowdown with my system and
> lasts for a day or two before it comes back to normal.. What the devil is
> happening? It is really annoying...
>
> I have a Vista Ultimate 64bit OS, 6GB memory and usually an 8 to 20MB fast
> throughput.
>
> Is this happening with Win7 as well? Really frustrating... Glad Microsoft
> didn't manufacture cars or airplanes....
>

I'm a novice with Windows, but have been doing embedded systems software for
over 30 years on various platforms. My lab has numerous computers that run
Windows, and I run Windows at home on some systems. However, I am by no means
a Windows expert.

It is my experience that all operating systems are "full of holes", and that
because of the huge number of Windows users, the vast majority not being
computer experts, the "holes" (bugs, etc) in Windows are found and reported
more often. Software for Windows is often developed by market-driven teams
who must get the product to the shelf by some deadline set by managers, not
developers. Bugs in that software, which can include drivers, can manifest
odd symptoms. It's all part of a complicated situation, and if it were simple
would have been vastly improved by now.

To help find the root of some issues, Windows includes an "event" viewer. It
can give good clues (and sometimes not so good clues if you don't know how to
determine the associated software for a given CLSID, for example). There are
many free resources on the web to help learn about these things. Here are but
a few....
http://www.fileresearchcenter.com/showglossaryterm.html?term=CLSID
http://www.windows7update.com/Windows7-Event-Viewer.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

As others suggested here, if you don't like updates you can set to notify
only, or to download but not install.
Good luck with your system(s).
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