I have had to re install windows vista on my pc

I have downloaded Vista service pack 1 and Vista service pack 2

how do I download the Cumulative updates?

I have searched but the links seem confusing

thanks

CN

Install Windows 7…

srsly though, try going into control panel and ‘search for windows updates’ under system (or system & security).

poikilotherm said:

Install Windows 7…

srsly though, try going into control panel and ‘search for windows updates’ under system (or system & security).

yes I will upgrade to win 7 soon

I can set the auto update, but it takes forever, it seems to download a bit, restarts, downloads another bit restarts etc

I would rather download all the updates in one go,

WTF would you want to continue using Vista? It was one of the shittest of all shit OS’s!

Divine Angel said:

WTF would you want to continue using Vista? It was one of the shittest of all shit OS’s!

It came with the laptop, I will upgrade soon to win 7

I have a raspberry pi now $35, as well as an android pc on a flash drive $45

in fact I am typing away on the pi right now,

the scratch program seems interesting

Divine Angel said:

WTF would you want to continue using Vista? It was one of the shittest of all shit OS’s!

You’re such a hater! :-)

I personally had no problems with Vista.

I’ll be living in the science-fictional world of Windows 8 next week, when the new machine arrives.

Bubblecar said:

I’ll be living in the science-fictional world of Windows 8 next week, when the new machine arrives.

What colour is it?

Mostly black.

I heard that some people say that Vista was proof that evil exists in the world.

A HP Pavilion, YOU BOUGHT A HP PAVILION?

Obviousman said:

I heard that some people say that Vista was proof that evil exists in the world.

Well, I wouldn’t go that far.

Peak Warming Man said:

A HP Pavilion, YOU BOUGHT A HP PAVILION?

Very good value on this one, given the specs.

Bubblecar said:

Peak Warming Man said:

A HP Pavilion, YOU BOUGHT A HP PAVILION?

Very good value on this one, given the specs.

Yeah, no it’ll be fine I’m sure, you’ll probably get a good one.

I remember on chap who bought a HP Pavilion, he was pretty excited, pacing up and down etc.
When it arrived he opened it up and it was just the case, next day the Motherboard arrived from Formosa, the day after that the video card arrived from China.
Pits and pieces kept arriving for a week until finally the mouse arrived from India.
Turns out he forgot to tick the Assembled box when he ordered it, a simple thing but easy enough to do.

You did tick the Assembled box didn’t you?

Peak Warming Man said:

You did tick the Assembled box didn’t you?

If not we’ll have to send instructions by Morse code.

Peak Warming Man said:

I remember on chap who bought a HP Pavilion, he was pretty excited, pacing up and down etc.
When it arrived he opened it up and it was just the case, next day the Motherboard arrived from Formosa, the day after that the video card arrived from China.
Pits and pieces kept arriving for a week until finally the mouse arrived from India.
Turns out he forgot to tick the Assembled box when he ordered it, a simple thing but easy enough to do.

This chap was you wasn’t it?

Witty Rejoinder said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I remember on chap who bought a HP Pavilion, he was pretty excited, pacing up and down etc.
When it arrived he opened it up and it was just the case, next day the Motherboard arrived from Formosa, the day after that the video card arrived from China.
Pits and pieces kept arriving for a week until finally the mouse arrived from India.
Turns out he forgot to tick the Assembled box when he ordered it, a simple thing but easy enough to do.

This chap was you wasn’t it?

No, and anyway you can’t prove it.

HP are a very trusted brand. Mr Packard also used to make very fine cars, in the olden days.

Bubblecar said:

HP are a very trusted brand. Mr Packard also used to make very fine cars, in the olden days.

Aeroplanes too? (Isn’t the P51 fighter a Packard?

I think the P51 had Merlin engines built under license by Packard.

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

HP are a very trusted brand. Mr Packard also used to make very fine cars, in the olden days.

Aeroplanes too? (Isn’t the P51 fighter a Packard?

Some P51’s were powered by Packard _*engines_*…

Packards & Rolls Royce. Some Mustangs were actually assembled in Australia.

Peak Warming Man said:

I think the P51 had Merlin engines built under license by Packard.

You’re quite correct!

:)

“The definitive version, the P-51D, was powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a license-built version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin 60 series two-stage two-speed supercharged engine” (Wiki)

Peak Warming Man said:

I think the P51 had Merlin engines built under license by Packard.

Correct, and why they were called Packard Merlins. IIRC, they didn’t have a good a reputation as the RR Merlin.

Bubblecar said:

Packards & Rolls Royce. Some Mustangs were actually assembled in Australia.

Not just assembled, but licenced production:

“Commonwealth CA-17 Mustang Mk.20

80 Australian assembled P-51Ds, (100 delivered as kits but only 80 assembled).

Commonwealth CA-18 Mustang Mk. 21, Mk.22 and Mk.23

Licence production of 120 of the P-51D model, of which the Mk.21 and Mk.22 used the American-built Packard V-1650-3 or V-1650-7 and the Mk.23, which followed the Mk.21, was powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin 66 or Merlin 70 engines. 170 were ordered but only 120 were built.” (From wiki, too.)

>>100 delivered as kits

Only if you forgot to tick the Assembled box, even back then.

And was also the inspiration for the CA-15 Kangaroo, and indiginous fighter. I believe it had phenominal performance but because it came at the end of the war, never went into production.

Peak Warming Man said:

>>100 delivered as kits

Only if you forgot to tick the Assembled box, even back then.

And so – the circle is complete.

It is clearly a corporate policy.

Hewlett-Packard were once a highly respected name in electronic test equipment and scientific instrumentation. They also made some of the earliest scientific calculators.

These days, they have a reputation for making crap printers and so-so computers.

>so-so computers

The specs of this one are perfectly adequate for my purposes, and the price is reasonable:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HP-PAVILION-P6-2300A-Core-i5-6GB-1TB-GeForce-1GB-Win-8-Desktop-PC-HDMI-WIFI-/231007814862?pt=AU_comp_dekstop&hash=item35c92384ce#ht_17259wt_1247

Bubblecar said:

>so-so computers

The specs of this one are perfectly adequate for my purposes, and the price is reasonable:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HP-PAVILION-P6-2300A-Core-i5-6GB-1TB-GeForce-1GB-Win-8-Desktop-PC-HDMI-WIFI-/231007814862?pt=AU_comp_dekstop&hash=item35c92384ce#ht_17259wt_1247

But did you tick the Assembled box??

>But did you tick the Assembled box??

These all come assembled, which is presumably why computer nerds think they’re “meh” :)

Phew. Now PWM can stop pacing and I can stop learning Morse code.

Bubblecar said:

>But did you tick the Assembled box??

These all come assembled, which is presumably why computer nerds think they’re “meh” :)

Now now… no need to get defensive about your crappy computer.

:-P

I’m sure it’s a far-from-crappy computer, and I’m not getting defensive. I’m confident that most forumites think I’m cool & attractive and my new computer is a pretty damn splendid machine.

There was a bloke in Canberra who put a P51 motor in a chain-drive Crossley motor car. Sounded awesome…

But I can find no information about it (yet).

PM 2Ring said:

Hewlett-Packard were once a highly respected name in electronic test equipment and scientific instrumentation. They also made some of the earliest scientific calculators.

These days, they have a reputation for making crap printers and so-so computers.

HP hived off the test equipment company into a separate entity which is now called Agilent.
I’ve got a HP Pavilion DV7 laptop. It does the job, especially now since I replaced the keyboard earlier in the week.

It runs vista :)

Michael V said:

There was a bloke in Canberra who put a P51 motor in a chain-drive Crossley motor car. Sounded awesome…

Shades of Bill Cosby / fat Albert and the Cessna engine.

Obviousman said:

Michael V said:

There was a bloke in Canberra who put a P51 motor in a chain-drive Crossley motor car. Sounded awesome…

Shades of Bill Cosby / fat Albert and the Cessna engine.

I don’t know that one, but I have seen a 6 cylinder (Cessna?) engine in a motorbike/sidecar outfit.

seeing this thread has gone way off topic

http://4rail.eu/nam/nam_vintage_cassscenicrr_wm_shaynr6_uphill_51_2011_1000.jpg

traction action

Divine Angel said:

WTF would you want to continue using Vista? It was one of the shittest of all shit OS’s!

I used Vista for several years and never had a problem. In reality Windows 7 is just Vista second edition.

There are a lot of Vista haters out there but when you talk to them quite a lot have had little or no experience with Vista.

I’m not sure what a W7 upgrade will cost but it may not be worth it for an old laptop

the laptop is a Dell inspiron 1525

with what it has been through, I have to say I am impressed with it

Vista was good I thought, Windows 7 was also pleasing to my tiny mind……..but Windows 8 is abominable, atrocious, downright bollocks! …..in my humble opinion

Fee said:

Vista was good I thought, Windows 7 was also pleasing to my tiny mind……..but Windows 8 is abominable, atrocious, downright bollocks! …..in my humble opinion

yes, Im not into tiles

I wish there were was more effort put into operating systems and GUI’s

especially GUI’s

Internet Explorer, Tools, Windows Update.

BTW Mz Tamb has a Vista machine which I thought was pretty bad until a friend asked me to configure his Windows 8 machine. By comparison Vista is not so bad.

For what was a very mundane thread title, I’m glad I clicked on it.

Thanks guys, I learned lots of new stuff today :)

PM 2Ring said:

Hewlett-Packard were once a highly respected name in electronic test equipment and scientific instrumentation. They also made some of the earliest scientific calculators.

These days, they have a reputation for making crap printers and so-so computers.

The HP-45 calculator, and its successor the HP-35, totally changed the way engineers went about their work. They were the true fore-runners of the PC, and had a much greater effect on the way things were done than the big main-frame computers, which were so cumbersome to use they significantly slowed down the work process, rather than speeding things up.

The HP-45 was unleashed upon the workplace in 1972, as was I.

We were allowed one per floor.