gates.!

[Cymru1]

Shut her off last night but engine kept running! - for ages. Temp was getting
high as well.

Yet again this evening same fault. Started her up and nothing..nothing at all for.
5min.





Hate windows 7 updates....do we really need 40+ in one go?

[mcandmar]

Took me a minute to work out what you were talking about there. Windows 7 aint bad at all, updates are small and quick to install. Try working in IT when your constantly rebuilding Windows XP machines, even after service pack 4 it wants to download and install 200 odd updates, takes forever...

[Nuvo]

@Mark, XP service pack 4? I assume this must be a custom build? Do you have a link you can share maybe?

[mcandmar]

sry meant SP3. Spent the morning working on a 2000 server so SP4 was in my head. You can build your own as an MSI and push it out, or download all the updates individually and run them in a script to silent install. I usually just let a WSUS server push them out, that way you just have to reboot it a few times freeing up time to do other things. ...like checking the s2forum

[Nuvo]

I did wonder if if you were think about another OS. I'll look into rolling my own using either of the two methods you mention. I might save me a bit of time in the long term.

[mcandmar]

WSUS is the way to go, problem with custom packages or scripts is having to update them every month to add in the new updates. If you have a lot of machines to rebuild and have the luxury of standardized hardware then a disk image is the ultimate, PXE boot off the network to a Windows Deployment server, pull down the disk image and reboot. Job done.

[Nuvo]

Thanks Mark, I'll look into that.