ThinkPad T61p 6459-CTO on Windows Vista Home Premium.
For over two months, Windows Vista SP 2 has been trying to get installed in my system but it systematically fails installation.
I have tried everything, from Google searching, posting in Microsoft's forums, searching Microsoft pages, tried to install manually, always with absolutely no success. What shocks me most is that in the Microsoft forums I get no reply, whatsoever. I'm just puzzled. All I could get from those forums was an answer to a similar installation failure, for a different Windows update (meanwhile resolved) that went like this: "Microsoft keeps flooding us with these worthless updates... Just hide it, and you will be fine"...
In all fairness, I found several materials about this issue in Microsoft's web pages. But I must humbly confess, I found them so confusing and so difficult to follow and to understand, at least for people with my level of knowledge, that I refrained from even attempting to do anything that I did not fully understand, afraid that I might end up creating major problems in my computer, instead of resolving an issue that, at least as far as I can tell, has not been causing major disruptions.
But I can't deny feeling uneasy with the uncertainty of the situation, which I would summarize like this: Is it safe to keep ignoring the issue and hide this SP2 update, or is it worth it to bring the issue up with a computer expert and pay for an analysis and, hopefully, to a solution?
Now, if at least someone, more knowledgeable than I, could assure me that this SP 2 package, rated by Microsoft as "Important", can harmlessly be hidden with no major consequences on security or even a big loss of functionality, that would help me a lot in taking a better informed decision.
Please... Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Thanks.
