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Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Copy your data off first. If you can not boot your system, remove the hard drive and put it into a USB external drive housing. Connect to a working PC, copy the data off. Always check to ensure the hard drive you are about to rebuild is actually sound from a hardware perspective.
You will need a Win7 install disk. You will need a legal product code and the win7 disk must match the edition of the code and its bitness 32 or If you do not have the original Windows 7 install disk, borrow one from a friend. If that disk has SP1 Service Pack 1 on it, it will save you many hours.
Do not install anything but Windows Updates until your system is up to date. Once you have the update list, install all of them together. Installing updates in batches will not speed the process or make it better.
Boot your system to the Windows 7 install disk. When it asks where to store the system, click Advanced. In Windows Vista, you have to add or remove any Windows component for the scavenging to take place. And Microsoft says the scavenging will free up some disk space but in practice, on my system, I see my free disk space only decreasing on Vista as I remove or add any component.
As as you install more and more updates on your system, they will take more and more disk space. This is one of the primary reasons Windows Vista and Windows 7 are so bloated. Another reason for them being so bloated is the DriverStore that these OSes store. But let's not go there for now. Now, an important thing to note is that the size of the WinSxS folder is not what Explorer or the dir command report, it is far less but is misreported by Explorer because it counts the hard links more than once when calculating size.
Microsoft's ingenious recommendation to this problem of ever growing disk consumption is to install fewer updates to keep the size of the servicing store under control. Of course, users cannot deny installing security updates and leave their system open to security holes. What they can do is install less optional updates, the ones that Microsoft releases on the fourth Tuesday of every month and also install less of the hotfixes that are available by request from a Knowledge Base article.
In short, you have to trade the number of bugs fixed in the OS by installing hotfixes at the cost of enormous amounts of disk space.
The whole servicing stack is a total downgrade to Windows XP's update. Many systems are unable to boot because of failed updates. Another disadvantage of the "new" servicing stack and the redesigned Setup mechanism of Windows Vista is the inability to do a true slipstream of service packs and hotfixes.
The time it takes to actually install these hotfixes online compared to Windows XP is also completely unacceptable. When you start installing an MSU update, it spends a lot of time determining whether the update applies to your system.
Then, the update itself takes much longer to install compared to Windows XP's Update. Finally, that post-installation process "Configuring updates Do not turn off your computer" takes several minutes before shut down followed by a second post-installation process configuration upon restart before logon that also takes also several minutes and thrashes the disk. I can install the entire SP3 for Windows XP in about 10 minutes after downloading the full installer. In contrast, Windows Vista or Windows 7 do install relatively quickly in just about minutes on a modern PC but installing the service packs and updates takes more time than anything on XP did.
Not only can service packs not be slipstreamed, but Vista Service Packs are not even cumulative, which means if you clean install Windows Vista today, you have to install SP1 first which takes about 90 minutes, then SP2 which takes less time, then all the post-SP2 updates which do take hours to install.
If you really HAVE to use Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you are stuck with this slow update non-sense as Microsoft does not even acknowledge that there is any slowdown or loss of functionality in the new servicing mechanism. Is is worth wasting your time on an OS whose servicing mechanism Microsoft completely screwed up? Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows 7 products are not engineered with disk space in mind. It causes a problem, especially for SSDs which are still low capacity and very expensive.
The only hope is that Microsoft again completely redesigns this servicing mechanism in a future Windows release so it would not cause this growing disk space consumption issue, speed up installation of updates by an order of magnitude, not slow down logon and logoff, not prevent systems becoming unusable because of failed updates being stuck at a particular stage and allow true slipstreaming.
Microsoft's response to this is vague - they simply state "Windows 7's servicing is more reliable than Windows XP" but they cannot acknowledge it is a million times slower and still unreliable Of course they know all this too but can't admit it since it makes their latest OSes look poor. Take a look at servicing-related complaints in Microsoft's own forums: 1.
Very slow install of updates to Windows 7 2. Windows 7 - Updates are very slow 3. Windows 7 Ultimate, it takes long time configuring updates 4. Very slow update install at shutdown Windows 7 Home Premium 6. Why does my computer run so slow when installing updates? Every time the computer is shut down, it always says installing update do not turn off your computer 8.
Computer is working slow and wants to do windows updates all the time 9. Windows 7 Update install time taking a very long time Windows wants to install 6 updates every time I log off or put the computer in sleep mode Computer really slow after latest updates
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