I'm still amazed at how quickly things go these days. Not so long ago reinstalling windows was a good couple of hours or so, and then god knows howlong downloaiding updates on a shitty slow connection.
Now it's less than 15 minutes using a USB 3 memory stick, an SSD and my stupid-fast broadband and I'm all setup, updated, Chrome installed (and synced to my previous settings/extensions). And now I can change my desktop picture!!?!!!!":"111
I've recently fixed to Windows 7 computers and they took aaaaaaaaages to complete all the updates. The install was quick both times (twice on the last one - I reinstalled Win7 with the Aldi recovery partition, switched the computer off, plugged the HDD into mine to copy the stuff back and when i plugged it back in the drive was completely empty) but the updates needed lots of reboots and time.
Home now, thought my laptop might want to upgrade itself but apparently not. I left it downloading the files over night and it doesn't seem to have finished it. I ran the setup.exe and it says boot.win is not there.