I have a laptop and needed to do a full re install of Windows 7 on it. The Windows setup application asked at the beginning if I wanted to download updates. I said yes.
Needless to say - after Windows 7 was installed - there were 398 critical updates waiting for me requiring some 10 reboots in between patches. It took about 16 hours after the initial reinstall to get the system back up to SP1, with all the new hotfixes and IE 11. I would have gone right to Windows 10 - but this laptop has an incompatibility which causes it to reboot during the setup process. Can anyone recommend a way to include all the patches and service packs into the initial install so everything is set up the way it should be? I doubt I will have to do this reinstall again in the near future, but I'd like to hear from system administrators on this list. Thanks, Eric
