Was I stupid to run Vista Update on a Vlite installation?

[zicoz]

I just installed my first Vlite installation, and it worked fine untill I tried to run Windows Update, because now it just keeps looping on the boot, it gets to 100% on the "3 of 3" part, then it reboots, and this goes on and on and on and on. Is it impossible to run Windows Update on a vlite intallation? Is this somehow because it tries to update things that aren't there?

[enuffsaid]

You were stupid to run Vista. Period. :-D

[David_jcd]

I just installed my first Vlite installation, and it worked fine untill I tried to run Windows Update, because now it just keeps looping on the boot, it gets to 100% on the "3 of 3" part, then it reboots, and this goes on and on and on and on. Is it impossible to run Windows Update on a vlite intallation? Is this somehow because it tries to update things that aren't there?

I run Windows Update un vlite vista, and it works fine! I think it depends on what you removed...

[zicoz]

Yeah, I probably removed too much then, took it down to about a 680MB iso with Home Basic. But atleast it works for what it is supposed to.

[aviv00]

nope just remove the pending.xml from winsxs dir and go on with ur virtual life

Edited September 25, 2008 by aviv00

[oskingen]

This pending.xml is causing a lot of trouble even with other applications. few days ago i was working on a case with an installation loop because of this file

[deathman20]

The looping error from the 3 of 3 update is tricky. Mostly though it is because you removed 1 too many things.

This is one reason why I'm going to be cautious of what I remove when I make a disk. There is just too many things that can screw up. As well you might want to test it in VirtaulBox, before doing a clean whip/install.

Edited September 25, 2008 by deathman20

[zicoz]

This pending.xml file, do I remove this from the iso? From the newly installed produkt, or from the updated product before restarting?

[aviv00]

if u removed winsxs with vlite then yes [as far as i know from server 2008, could be fixed with vista i duno]

else duno