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An elderly neighb comes to me every now and then with problems with his pooter.
The latest issue is that he has 7 important Vista updates that won't update. I tried all the obvious stuff - CCleaning everything including thingy cache, trying one update at a time etc, but nope - it just doesn't update.
It looks as tho' it's going to work, and the blue horizontal scrolling bar does scroll, but it stays at 0% however long you leave it. A quick surf suggests it's not chust his computer.
I also tried downloading Microsoft's 'standalone' updater, but exactly the same thing happens - ie nothing.
Anyhoo, he uses Chrome and this is now saying that they won't support Vista any more.
Bottom line, I suggested he upgrade to Win7 (possibly 10).
Thoughts?
His is an old machine - I don't know the spec, I forgot to look.
Anyhoo, I told him I'd also look out for a 'new' machine and get Win 7 on to it for him, and this should be doable for not much more than £50 from what I can see - a core-2-duo with 4GB and stuff.
What if, instead, I were to download Win7 on to his current machine - should this be doable without him losing his existing files? And does Win 7 overwrite Vista or will Vista need removing afterwards?
I still favour the new machine approach as I'll be able to do all the setting up at my own place first, including downloading 7 (his 'net runs as chust over 2Mbps...)
Also, I see legitimate peeps selling Win 7 CAOs for around a £enner - they have been taken from defunct machines and all that needs doing is for the actual software to be downloaded and installed - then the CAO activates it. Does that sound legit?
Thanks for thoughts on this.
The latest issue is that he has 7 important Vista updates that won't update. I tried all the obvious stuff - CCleaning everything including thingy cache, trying one update at a time etc, but nope - it just doesn't update.
It looks as tho' it's going to work, and the blue horizontal scrolling bar does scroll, but it stays at 0% however long you leave it. A quick surf suggests it's not chust his computer.
I also tried downloading Microsoft's 'standalone' updater, but exactly the same thing happens - ie nothing.
Anyhoo, he uses Chrome and this is now saying that they won't support Vista any more.
Bottom line, I suggested he upgrade to Win7 (possibly 10).
Thoughts?
His is an old machine - I don't know the spec, I forgot to look.
Anyhoo, I told him I'd also look out for a 'new' machine and get Win 7 on to it for him, and this should be doable for not much more than £50 from what I can see - a core-2-duo with 4GB and stuff.
What if, instead, I were to download Win7 on to his current machine - should this be doable without him losing his existing files? And does Win 7 overwrite Vista or will Vista need removing afterwards?
I still favour the new machine approach as I'll be able to do all the setting up at my own place first, including downloading 7 (his 'net runs as chust over 2Mbps...)
Also, I see legitimate peeps selling Win 7 CAOs for around a £enner - they have been taken from defunct machines and all that needs doing is for the actual software to be downloaded and installed - then the CAO activates it. Does that sound legit?
Thanks for thoughts on this.