I am having major problems with the latest incarnation of Windows Update Agent. I finally gave up on updating my VMs and decided to rebuild them from scratch. I tried to use the Windows Ultimate x64 SP1 ISO. After installing I had 76 important patches to apply -- not counting the various language updates. After applying them I had another 15 then another 8 etc. Unfortunately, during the process of applying all of the patches the machines blue screened. Why can't Microsoft provide an ISO with all its important patches on patch Tuesday? Why do I, as an end user, have to act as a beta tester for Microsoft's patches? If Microsoft has Q/A'ed the patches they should be able to slipstream them into an ISO image and save their paying customers from having to beta test their Windows Update Process. Signed one ticked off user who has been there since the two diskette version. http://www.saberman.com

Because with Windows 7, and Windows Vista, you cannot "slipstream" updates into the installation media. It you look at the install DVD and the installation method, you will find that both Windows 7 and Windows Vista have Windows Images (WIM) for the installation. This means to make the WIM you must install the updates on a live system and then make an image of the live system.Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Microsoft crates a new image when it releases an ISO with a service pack installed. It obviously must have a number of test machines that are fully patched that could be used to create an updated ISO. So the question still is why doesn't Microsoft release an updated ISO on patch Tuesdays? Why do end users have to apply over a hundred updates when installing from an ISO that has been updated with SP1? Especially when the installation process for that many updates is prone to failing at some point -- at least mine does -- and sometimes leaves the machine unbootable even in Safe Mode and repairing from a Windows 7 SP1 ISO also does work?http://www.saberman.com

"saberman" wrote in message news:3ec25ff7-b94f-43ff-8ca0-8e2b7eb3b71f... Microsoft crates a new image when it releases an ISO with a service pack installed. It obviously must have a number of test machines that are fully patched that could be used to create an updated ISO. So the question still is why doesn't Microsoft release an updated ISO on patch Tuesdays? Why do end users have to apply over a hundred updates when installing from an ISO that has been updated with SP1? Especially when the installation process for that many updates is prone to failing at some point -- at least mine does -- and sometimes leaves the machine unbootable even in Safe Mode and repairing from a Windows 7 SP1 ISO also does work? http://www.saberman.com Every Service Pack is extensively beta-tested to ensure as few problems as possible - the process takes over three months. Patches are beta-tested individually, and can be released in weeks as a result - or even days if necessary. Some patches are revised periodically, or have to be recalled and re-issued because of faults. Allowing new ISO's would cause major headaches for support, as they'd have no real idea what the starting-point of a system was, and there would be a huge increase in support calls and costs. MS has a schedule for SP's which allows beta-testing requirements to be evened out so that they don't have too many major betas running at the same time, followed by a slack period with nothing happening. I suspect that as soon as the beta teams have cleared the decks from Win8, they'll be all over the SP2 beta like flies on ....^h^h^h^h jam :) Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

The current update process is not sustainable. I now have over a hundred patches applied of which four failed. I cannot uninstall the four failed patches because they don't show up in the list. I can't install them from WIndows Update because they are not offerred. I still have to install Office 2007 which will again require loads of patches.http://www.saberman.com

Hi, You may upload the update installation log file here from C:\Windows\windowsupdate.log http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproui/thread/4fc10639-02db-4665-993a-08d865088d65/Kim Zhou TechNet Community Support