Windows Updates and duplicate download offerings

[evan_237]

After doing several upgrades to my machine (to include the video card and CPU), I decided to do a clean install of Win Vista. Two strange events happened. First, during the process of downloading all of my Windows Updates, I happened to notice that some of them were duplicates. In other words, some of them were being offered to me when I had previously downloaded them during this reinstall process. Some of the duplicates being offered included the following:

Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB936181)

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - November 2007 (KB890830)

Atheros Communications, Inc (wireless card)

These are just the duplicates I happened to notice. However, it was annoying to learn that I was being offered windows updates for specific updates that I had already downloaded with my reinstallation. In the case of the first update (listed above), it installed a total of 6 times on my computer. Crazy!

The other issue was activation. This is a retail version of Win Vista Home Premium. While the registration process allowed me to do it sucessfully online (without any telephone calls), I got a message (one day later) indicating that because of some hardware changes, that I would need to register windows again. Keep in mind, I already reactivated Windows Vista Home Premium "after" the hardware upgrades so why was I being asked to register again. Will this registration stick or will I get the message again some time?

Does anyone have any ideas on why these things happened. Any feedback on how to stop them? I appreciate any feedback. My PC specs are below:

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz (Q6600) 1066 FSB

4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs

Two 250 GB Sata Hard Drives

Philips DVD-ROM6316

TSSTCorp DVD+-RW TS-H553A

13 in 1 Media Card Reader

Dell 1907 flatpanel (digital)

EVGA nVidia GeForce 8800 GT

Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

32 bit Vista Home Premium with Raid 0

Edited November 14, 2007 by evan_237