Eichhörnchen,

the updating for Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 has been broken down by Microsoft, and it is known since month.

There can be some things done, however. Manually updating file by file from their new catalogue, but not using Windows Update. Installing certain additional KB things that help to speed up the process. Keeping a certain sequence of updates. At least this all helps for some people. But not for all, by far not.

I do not have that all in m y head, since I do not care for it, but you may want to read a bit here. http://www.askwoody.com/ There are many blog entries dealign with how to do it, you need to find them however, Start with scanning the headlines of the past months.

The question is whether you really want to invest all this much time. The better solution is to minimise the use of Windows and not udating it anymore at all, or even drop it completely. If you minimise its use only, do not use it for online stuff at all, just as a software launcher.

The cost versus gain ratio calculates differently for people. For me it obviously was no longer worth it one year ago. But it is your choice.

Yes, thanks guys. I don't plan to worry about what updates I do or don't have (I'm sure I wouldn't understand what they were if someone handed me a list) just so long as I can get online to service my website when I want to, get my mail and come on here to annoy you lot.

Btw, the START button is working now, so some of it must've taken...

Surfing, emailing: go Linux.

Website management: don't know. If you need software for that that only runs under Windows, well, then... But maybe there are Linux software alternatives serving for this purpose of maintaining own websites? Somebody knowing this stuff must answer this, I never did web-stuff.

By "service my website", do you mean to interface with the server? Or do you mean creating web pages for your website?

There are several programs to do both...

"Apache" is a web server for Linux that has been around for a long while, so there are plenty of programs available to do both interfacing, and creating web pages for said servers...

Barracuda

Hey you stole my post!:arrgh!:


Repeat after us: LINUX! It does what you need.

Apache is so good that the vast majority of web pages you visit every day are served not by anything Microsoft, but by Apache on Linux.