Vista - Updates appear again after I've installed them.

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me with the following: I am new to Vista and only installed it on my new system about a week ago so I expect there is a simple solution to everything!

When I first downloaded and installed all the recommended updates I kept having problems restarting Vista and had to boot from the DVD and repair/restore. Eventually I worked out that installing the updates in similar groups (e.g. all the x64 updates, then drivers etc) and shutting down the system after each install and then turning it back on seemed to enable them to install properly.

When I had eventually finished this (it took a while) I turned the computer off happy! However, when I turned it back on the next day and looked at the available ones - most of them were the ones I'd installed the day before! Mostly x64 and security updates but also 9600GT driver updates and my wireless LAN driver update - all of which had installed successfully the day before.

I've refreshed the list to check it's not old and have double checked the updates installed and they did.

Any help in resolving the above woul be much appreciated. (SP1 is also not offered for update yet)

That's an interesting problem. I did some research on it, and found Microsoft has an actual support page dedicated to this problem here, though it's not very helpful.

It pretty much just tells you to boot up in Safe Mode and install the updates.

Also, these aren't updates to the updates (if that makes sense) are they? I've had that before - on a fresh computer, Windows Update will suggest I move to version 1.2 of a driver, I install it, and on reboot it decides now I need 1.4.

If I were you, I'd try to install SP1 first, and see what it decides to tell you from there. This sounds like a weird glitch in your current setup more than anything.

They do list as "Installed" in the history, right?

Anyways, try downloading SP1 and reporting back?

Hopefully this helped a bit, though it probably didn't.