PC Tech Thread

after emma's w10 laptop continually shit the bed and refused to maintain a network connection for longer than 2 minutes at a time I downgraded it to win 7 last week and now it works perfectly.

however, windows update is fucked for legacy installs good and proper. you have to install specific updates manually to update windows update (so you can update while you update) or else the fucking thing will sit there pretending to search for new updates indefinitely.

one you fix that shit-show there's now a rollup of all windows updates for win 7 up to about the start of this year which only appears if you log in to win update manually on the website using IE.

once that's done there's still about 8 hours worth of install/reboot/wait/install/reboot/wait shenanigans to go through until it's up to date.

coupled with the fact you can't create a bootable usb key for win 7 on windows 10 because of the way the bios boots having changed (something to do with eufi or some bollocks) so i had to create a bootable usb windows installer key on my mac using bootcamp (but not the latest version on sierra as that option's been removed now, el capitan only plz which luckily was still on my mac mini server) the whole process took me nearly 36 hours of effort including watching the updates install.

the only saving grace was I got to be supremely petty and throw it back in emma's face after she'd made the biggest of deals out of giving me a lift to essex with my camping gear for a 24 hour race as it was going to take up 3 hours of her day on both saturday AND sunday.