Cannot install updates

I'm surprised an upgrade install from Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate can be done.
I stand corrected.

flavallee said:

You cannot do an upgrade install from Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit to Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit.
You would have to do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit.

How exactly did you install Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit?
Was Service Pack 1(SP1) included or installed afterwards?

Having never done an upgrade install before I read several online articles to, hopefully, make sure i did it correctly. (For thirty years I've heard never install one OS over another, wipe the drive and install clean; yet Micro$oft does it all the time, how many have done win7 to 8, or 8 to 10, now 10 to 11, from an online update. MS just shoots the files down the wire and installs without wiping out the old OS.) So I used Macrium to backup Vista, removed the old D drive recovery partition, expanded the C drive into that, restarted, put the Win7 disk in the drive and ran setup; after the language and license screens select "upgrade" instead of "custom", and about three hours later after the last restart I now have a Win7 system. So far it is working fine, I just have to see what updates I can do and tweak everything to my tastes.

FWIW I did it this way because there was too much registered software on the Vista system I could not easily replace, but some programs, notably java programming, were being problematic; and it was increasingly difficult to get compatible AV and browsers.

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Megahertz07 said:

Run winver to find out if your system is SP1.
If not, install SP1

That shows "Microsoft Windows Version 6.1 (Build 7600) Copyright 2009".

So guess I need SP1, and anything else. (The last time i used this disk was to put Win7 on this laptop four years ago, and everything was still available for MS update.)

I ran the Simplex downloader referenced above, but no idea where it put the file (nothing on desktop or in any download folder), tried running it again but nothing happens.

To continue; I have SP1 and KB3138612. Do I install in that order? Is there any prerequisite before SP1? After these will the Simplex download cover everything I need at this point?

We post simultaneously, lol. Thanks for the input.

Well, no luck installing SP1.

An hour installing and configuring only to end up with: "Failure configuring services pack. Reverting changes."

Another hour and back to desktop with: "Installation was not successful. Unspecified error." but at the bottom of that window: "Error: E_FAIL (0x80004005)"

windows6.1-kb976932-x86_c3516bc5c9e69fee6d9ac4f981f5b95977a8a2fa.exe from Microsoft site.

Still no joy. Installed the Readiness Tool, then tried SP1 again.

"A system error prevented the service pack from installing. Error_Invalid_Data (0x8007000d)"