Order updates are applied

Was windows-updating some boxes that hadn't been done in a while, and having
big problems. Turns out that updates were all failing because they were
getting installed newest first! If I uncheck all then only install the oldest
5-10 all is fine, then do the next few, and so on. Four or five reboots
later, they're all installed. This seems fundamentally flawed to me - surely
it'd be logical to install the oldest ones first, especially as their are
clearly dependencies in the new patches preventing them being installed until
the older ones are!

Any reason you didn't use Windows Update or Automatic Update to update the
boxes?

How did you decide what updates the boxes needed?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org


BillB wrote:
> Was windows-updating some boxes that hadn't been done in a while, and
> having big problems. Turns out that updates were all failing because they
> were getting installed newest first! If I uncheck all then only install
> the oldest 5-10 all is fine, then do the next few, and so on. Four or
> five reboots later, they're all installed. This seems fundamentally
> flawed to me - surely it'd be logical to install the oldest ones first,
> especially as their are clearly dependencies in the new patches
> preventing them being installed until the older ones are!

What else would I be using? This is with Windows Update in IE.

"PA Bear" wrote:

> Any reason you didn't use Windows Update or Automatic Update to update the
> boxes?
>
> How did you decide what updates the boxes needed?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org
>

Please include all of previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup,
Bill.

> What else would I be using?

You may have downloaded updates from Windows Update Catalog or from the
Windows Catalog. Did you "take" each machine individually to Windows Update
and download only updates needed for that machine?

After you scan for updates, look carefully: Any update which needs to be
installed before installing any of the others will have a notice/warning to
this effect.

Now, if none of the listed updates had such a notice or warning, that is a
problem.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

BillB wrote:
> What else would I be using? This is with Windows Update in IE.
>
> "PA Bear" wrote:
> > Any reason you didn't use Windows Update or Automatic Update to update
> > the boxes?
> >
> > How did you decide what updates the boxes needed?
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> BillB wrote:
> > Was windows-updating some boxes that hadn't been done in a while, and
> > having big problems. Turns out that updates were all failing because
> > they were getting installed newest first! If I uncheck all then only
> > install the oldest 5-10 all is fine, then do the next few, and so on.
> > Four or five reboots later, they're all installed. This seems
> > fundamentally flawed to me - surely it'd be logical to install the
> > oldest ones first, especially as their are clearly dependencies in the
> > new patches preventing them being installed until the older ones are!