Well, guess Windows Update is still just as broken as it was in August.
The OS install on one of my PC's decided to hose up yesterday, so I had to reinstall. For some reason the video card driver kept crashing repeatedly (not even while running a 3D benchmark or game, just sitting at the desktop or browsing the web), reinstalled the driver (didn't help), reseated the card in the PCI Express slot 2-3x (didn't help), moved it to a different PCI E x16 slot and it stopped crashing, then moved it back to the original slot and it was still working normally. Then, after getting the video card issue resolved, the Network/LAN/Ethernet port stopped working (but only in the OS). It would light up the power/connectivity light, but wouldn't light up the Link/Activity light in the OS, but in the BIOS and during the POST process both lights were illuminated (indicating to me that the port was working normally, right up until the OS loaded).
Well, after a reinstall from a disc of Windows 7 with SP1 on it, not surprisingly the updater didn't work. Had to install all of the same updates I installed manually on two or three other systems. Now it's sort-of working. Got an icon in the notification tray telling me that new updates are available, which when clicked on took me to the Windows Update dialog box and it asked me to check for updates, after waiting on it to finish for an hour I gave up and restarted the PC. Now trying again for the second time for it to actually find these updates so that I can hopefully install them.
I fear for what I will have to do if or when I have to reinstall Windows 7 on my main PC. I probably will at some point, mainly because Windows Media Player is unable to find/see many of my media files. I've even manually input the file locations to its library, but it still can't find some of my songs, or any of my video files. But oddly, if I find one of the (non-locateable) files and manually tell it to play in WMP it plays just fine, and even telling it to add the file to the library while it is playing or in the playlist doesn't work. Really odd because my previous PC (which I copied the files from) is able to find and play all of these files without any issues.