{"id":151,"date":"2009-10-28T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T10:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:15:59","slug":"windows-7-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/windows-7-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Windows XP installation on my laptop had suffered the usual Windows fate of accruing too much entropy over the last two years. The Lenovo tools alone are quite heavy-weight by themselves. Instead of re-installing XP, I opted for Windows 7. After all, we’re supposed to be familiar with what’s out there in the wild.<\/p>\n

So far, Windows 7 has been quite ok, there are some issues with OpenVPN (and\/or the Checkpoint VPN client) and other free software (what’s one of the reasons I’m not running the x64 version). But this one puzzles me:<\/p>\n

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I simply want to know what updates are available in “Windows Updates”. Whatever I do, the pane stays empty. WTF?<\/p>\n

I’m not<\/a> the only one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Windows XP installation on my laptop had suffered the usual Windows fate of accruing too much entropy over the last two years. The Lenovo tools alone are quite heavy-weight by themselves. Instead of re-installing XP, I opted for Windows 7. After all, we’re supposed to be familiar with what’s out there in the wild. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-peeves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}