My two days off - and I going to start fixing my bosses computer - Most of the repair is comprised of waiting for the software to install - but I do have to keep an eye on it so it won’t take for ever. Fortunately there is a hidden partition on his computer which allows me to reinstall the system and user files - It just takes a couple of hours to run, so while I wait, I’ll answer some email that has been waiting for a while.
I began the system reinstall as soon as I got up this morning, which will take a few hours to complete, after the system is reinstalled, the real work begins. After the install I needed to uninstall all the trial ware that is included, and then the fun part starts -- getting all the updates for Vista - There are over a hundred of them, and they each need to be installed in order to allow the system to work correctly, and many require that I restart the computer to complete - which takes even more time.
I worked most of the day (off and on) getting the system ready for my Boss. Now its time to install the updates - the first few went by pretty quickly - 1, 2, or 3 at a time - now there are 69 in this group to install - fortunately they do most of this by themselves, except for the ones that I have to restart the system for - I will continue in the morning.