Update to IE10 fails

Sheesh, talk about thick ... Think I finally figured this out. Just erased the majority of this post, I 'm sure it was entertaining to somebody out there.

Will update if\when this gets resolved.

Got through the repair install and everything seemed to be working fine until ...
I started Windows Update. There's 117 updates and at some point the screen saver kicked in and froze everything. Rebooted, turned the SS off and started it again ... I think most of them had downloaded and the system froze completely on the 4th update as it was installing.

I'm at a loss ...

Do the update installs in small batches of around 5 or so - leave the .NET ones until the last.

Thanks Noel. Came across that somewhere here ...
Got all the updates through but after all this, the original problem with upgrading to IE10 remains:


"WindowsUpdate_00009C59" "WindowsUpdate_dt000"

Although that might be a different error message than I was getting before.

Edit: Odd, it went through after all. Had 6 'optional' updates and it finally updated to IE10 as part of that last batch while I was posting here. I had tried it several times by itself after doing all the other updates first and it always failed.

My system overall seems surprisingly sluggish though

You'll need to defrag - the system will be horribly fragmented after that!

That's exactly what I thought and ran it last night and again this morning. What did they do to the defrag? You can't even see the breakdowns of the clusters anymore?

Ironically, I missed removing the iOrbit defrag but am loathe to even use it.

Event viewer has a lot of Boot\shutdown performance warnings

Also, 'Schannel' errors in one minute intervals ... Not at all adept at reading these events.

Sharktank I used to just use the Windows defrag before I went to SSD's but there are others you can use if you so want. I do not have to worry about defragging much at all now because the SSD's use a system that self cleans for want of a better term when it is idling.
They are worth the investment even if you just have one for booting with:)

I have seen others using "after market" defraggers but personally the Windows one although I found it very slow to be probably as good as any of the other "add ons".

I might add thatbefore I came to this forum I used to use all sorts of nonsense softwares and had so many problems and after many clean installs soon learnt a great number of the "make it run better" apps were just a crock of rubbish.

The important thing to remember about defragging is to use only one - each defragger has its own logic, and if you run Windows Defrag and then something different, the second one will move an awful lot of stuff around - and if you then use the Windows one again, it will move it back again :)