Thanks!! I actually had to do it twice, the first time it wouldn't restart, I reset the computer after half an hour and the updates showed as failed. Then I did it again, the computer still wouldn't reboot, but this time they showed up as successful. This is really weird, I heard of other people having the same problem. A friend of mine who uses Ultimate x86 had no problems at all. The reason I use x64 is so I can use the full 4GB of memory, plus I like the better security of an x64 system. Yes, I know this is a problem these days. I'm lucky, the updates installs correctly here and no hazzles at all. It rebooted fast. My neightboor has the same problem and what helps is a reboot and indeed, update again. As far as I can guess, this is a bug of Vista with specific drivers. I've had a hard to do to, to get some good sound out of my soundcard. Now it sounds clear with alternative drivers SP1 has some fixes about HD audio on-board chips what has to due with sleep and resuming. My advice is to try SP1 for Vista. It came with new hardware supoport. Download that whole big thing and install it. If Microsoft is already pushing the pre-requisites for SP1, the actual service pack might not be far off. I heard they were ahead of schedule, we'll see I guess.