Windows 7 update not working

I'd like to see a footnote to an article you claim "Bill Gates (himself!)" responded personally to listing the steps mentioned above as a fix to Windows 7's Update problems.

That's the most "idiotic solution" I've ever read!  If you are so "knowledgeable" to create such a "solution" as what you credit yourself as "solving" the problem; then you should find it "easy" explaining how Windows Update got so screwed up in the first place! i.e. - how could an Operation that has worked so flawlessly for YEARS get so screwed up and in such a relativity short period of time?  and, Please explain your "logic" used in each step you took.  Like, pretend you're back in High School Geometry where you must list the postulates, and truths etc. you had to use as if you were taking a Geometry Test and were working on a "Proof".  I'd like to try and follow your "logic" used for each step you describe above which led you to "solving" the update problem.  You expect people to just-take-your-word-for-it that the steps you provide (which make no sense at all) will solve Windows 7 update problems.  My belief is that Windows 7 needs more servers loaded with the monthly updates and they have no plans to add additional servers for an operating system they are trying to make 'obsolete' (Windows 7).  How did I come up with that?  I run 4 identical HP Business Machines with identical Windows 7 OS's.  Typically, I'll succeed in updating 3 of the 4 machines I routinely have online.  I try to finish with the updates on the day they're released.  If the fourth one 'hangs' while trying to update (symptons being the little 'wheel spinning on the windows update page; I leave it like that and go to bed for the night.  In the morning when I turn the monitor on; I find that during the night the downloads have made the trip to my computer.  p.s., I'm extremely tired right now and didn't 'proof-read' my reply and edit it before submission.  Kind Regards,

All I can say in reply is that I tried ALL of Bill Gates' solutions and all the other solutions on the net that I could find and understand and none worked.  The computer involved was an Asus EeePC upgraded from WinXP and after SP1 updates were a no go.

The solution I reported worked and my Win7 and other M/S software updates are now problem free.

Laurie

Get a freakin life....  You sound like someone who has way too much time on his hands.

That's the most "idiotic solution" I've ever read!  If you are so "knowledgeable" to create such a "solution" as what you credit yourself as "solving" the problem; then you should find it "easy" explaining how Windows Update got so screwed up in the first place! i.e. - how could an Operation that has worked so flawlessly for YEARS get so screwed up and in such a relativity short period of time?  and, Please explain your "logic" used in each step you took.  Like, pretend you're back in High School Geometry where you must list the postulates, and truths etc. you had to use as if you were taking a Geometry Test and were working on a "Proof".  I'd like to try and follow your "logic" used for each step you describe above which led you to "solving" the update problem.  You expect people to just-take-your-word-for-it that the steps you provide (which make no sense at all) will solve Windows 7 update problems.  My belief is that Windows 7 needs more servers loaded with the monthly updates and they have no plans to add additional servers for an operating system they are trying to make 'obsolete' (Windows 7).  How did I come up with that?  I run 4 identical HP Business Machines with identical Windows 7 OS's.  Typically, I'll succeed in updating 3 of the 4 machines I routinely have online.  I try to finish with the updates on the day they're released.  If the fourth one 'hangs' while trying to update (symptons being the little 'wheel spinning on the windows update page; I leave it like that and go to bed for the night.  In the morning when I turn the monitor on; I find that during the night the downloads have made the trip to my computer.  p.s., I'm extremely tired right now and didn't 'proof-read' my reply and edit it before submission.  Kind Regards,