> So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. Now just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog b

> So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. Now just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes. > Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows? > Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff. > This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg. > So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn't use it for anything else during this time. > What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished. > Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night - why should I reboot at that time? > So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state. It's amazing that Bill Gates experienced this 23 years ago, and yet nothing changed, at all.