{"id":2696,"date":"2011-08-27T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2011-08-27T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T13:51:26","slug":"problems-installing-windows-7-service-pack-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/problems-installing-windows-7-service-pack-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chet can&#8217;t download Service Pack 1 for Windows 7<\/strong><br \/>\nFor  sometime now haven&#8217;t been able to download my update for service pack 1. Even  after the PC laptop told me it was fixed. I&#8217;d sure like to know how to work  around this glitch. Thanks for your help in the past on many other things and  you are probably the best thing going in cyberspace these days. Best regards,  Chet<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our answer<\/strong><br \/>\nHi Chet &#8211; and thanks. Try  this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Download the update directly &#8211; don&#8217;t use Windows Update this time  from the following link &#8211; and be sure to select the correct download for your  version of Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit). If you&#8217;re not sure, right click on  &#8220;Computer&#8221;, select &#8220;Properties&#8221; and look under the heading &#8220;System&#8221;. Next to  &#8220;Operating System Type&#8221; you&#8217;ll see either 64-bit Windows or 32-bit  Windows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/en\/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/en\/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 32-Bit Windows 7 download: windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe<br \/>\nFor 64-Bit  Windows 7 download: windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe<\/p>\n<p>The file will be  downloaded to C:\\users\\your-user-name\\downloads. Remember the file path and  remember the name of the file, i.e. windows61.1-KB976932-X64.exe .<\/p>\n<p>Next  shutdown your computer and boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt. To boot into  safe mode, keep pressing the F8 key while Windows is booting. You&#8217;ll get a black  and white boot menu &#8211; from that menu select &#8220;Safe Mode with Command  Prompt&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next to the command prompt (which looks liked C:\\&gt; ) type  this:<\/p>\n<p>CD C:\\users\\your-user-name\\downloads . Your command prompt should  look like this:<\/p>\n<p>C:\\users\\your-user-name\\downloads\\&gt;<\/p>\n<p>At the  prompt, type in the file name you downloaded (either windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe  or windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe ) and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 SP-1 should  start running. Then let the windows reboot automatically and normally.<\/p>\n<p>If you follow these instructions, you should find that Windows 7 SP1 has  been successfully installed.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if this works for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chet can&#8217;t download Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 For sometime now haven&#8217;t been able to download my update for service pack 1. Even after the PC laptop told me it was fixed. I&#8217;d sure like to know how to work around this glitch. Thanks for your help in the past on many other things and you are\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/problems-installing-windows-7-service-pack-1\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1408,7,1409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}