Windows Update Vista Woes

I was one of the early adoptors of Windows Vista. I bought the OEM version the day it was released, for my home built machine... I had very few driver problems, and had only one annoyance (User Account Control) which I promptly turned off... I like the UI, it did seem faster, and as I got the x64 version, it showed my 4Gb of RAM, my world was good...


Or so I thought.... After a number of updates, Windows update stopped working... I decided to revert to XP, and wait til SP1 came out. SP1 came out, and I couldn't Install it, because to install SP1, you need the updates that wont install (even for the standalone version)

But around that time, I went to the microsoft Developer Developer Developer conference. Here Microsoft provided Trial versions of Vista SP1. I installed this with my licence key, and apparently the world was good again!

Updates installed like clockwork for a while... before grinding to a halt...

Attempts to install further updates were futile, and even purchases like MS Flight Simulator would fail half way through installation. I gave up.

SP2 has now been released. And after having paid €75 for flight simulator, I'd actually like to play it! So I attempted to fix things again. In an email to Microsoft, I explained all that I had done, and in failness, they did respond, but the response contained a list of webpages that I had already visited, and contained essentially the same information as my original email to Microsoft.

So I attempted a clean install. Still no joy....

So I'd really appreciate if Microsoft could provide a fix for Servicing Store and Windows Update... and distribute it as a bootable ISO, so that we can actually get the damn thing installed!!