Ah, the "joys" of Windoze

I'd been needing to replace one of my "utility" boxes. It runs a few proccesses that I don't want tying up the main box, including run a VPN client.

I don't do the VPN on the main box because my mail and a few other things get a bit tempermental if there's a VPN going.

And since the VPN client quit supporting anything older than Win 7 earlier this year, I really needed to get a box that could run Linux or at least Win 7.

My my hardware guy had a 64-bit box that maxed out at 4 gig of RAM (which is what it had installed). It had a Win7 Pro license, but some poor fool had been running Win 10 on it. Apparently it *could* run Win 10, but so slowly to be essentially not worth the effort.

So he let me have it cheap, and it basically added another month or so to the "high" payments I'm making him to cover some other hardware.

So he delivered it this moring. Had a bit of fun installing the DVD-RW in it, because of the way the case was designed. It wasn't until I looked at it really close that I realized that a "seam" on the faceplate was a button that pressed the button on the drive.

Installing Win 7 from my CD was easy. But once it was installed, it did 1 update and wanted to restart.

That was about 4 hours ago. After the restart it had 180+ updates to install. Which it just finished (mostly) a few wouldn't install.

I expect several more rounds pf updates before I can install my software. And then a few more rounds of updates as windows discovers it needs more updates because of things I've installed.

Maybe tomorrow..