As it’s been having issues for a while, I started the process of nuking and rebuilding my PC last night. I just managed to get it online (after having to search out the drivers for the motherboard’s on-board ethernet port, since it wasn’t auto-detected), and Windows Update has just notified me that I have 33 “critical updates” to install to my copy of Windows 2000 SP 2.
Oh, joy. I’m so glad I have broadband — but even so, there are enough of them that have to be installed on their own so that they can trigger restarts that this is still likely to take all night.
Update:
After the first update was installed and the computer restarted, the next trip to Windows Update actually increased the count to 34. If this keeps up, I’ll have the computer up to date round about the time Longhorn is released to the public in…oh, 2007 or so.