More Integration of Windows Update
June 3, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
After hopefully finding a solution to my wife’s laptop problems, I began wondering to myself, why in the world didn’t Windows Update notice there were BIOS updates available for my wife’s laptop?
Although my wife is running Vista, you can tell from the graphic to the left from my Windows XP Pro machine that Windows Update does in fact have the ability to look for updates to hardware components, software, OS updates obviously and even beta software option.
Why in the world wouldn’t Windows Update also see the updates that are available on the Toshiba support website?
I did see a few …read more
Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Failures Continue
March 28, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Okay, I’m really getting more and more irritated that this update is not working. I’ve tried everything that’s been mentioned by people in comments. I’ve also researched Microsoft’s Knowledge Base articles to look for solutions as well.
Today, again… I tried to download and install the update manually. First I downloaded the 218MB Office 2007 SP1 update file and tried to install it.
Then I tried to install it again in safe-mode with no luck.
Then I thought maybe I needed to try and install the SP1 Language update first. So I downloaded the 37MB file for that and tried.
I’ve …read more




