Perhaps it was SERVICE PACK 1
that's a BIG update and takes that much time..
If you go to the windows update window in vista there is further down a LINK
(blue in color) that says:
View update history
if you see in the history SP1 (service pack 1) then that's what cause it....
"Patrick" <mactrie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Just before Christmas I received several updates, I think it was about
> six, and clicked the Icon to install them. The PC, which is a 64 bit with
> 4gig RAM and running Vista Home Premium, took two and a half hours to
> install these updates, during this time I couldn't use the PC and when it
> finished it asked for the PC to be restarted and this took a further 30
> minutes. What is wrong, if anything?
>
> Patrick