Per . . .winston:
So no single update was 30GB as previously implied

Correctamundo!.... must have been from something else, although I still
cannot figure out what. To me, 30 gigs is a lot of space and it seems
like I should have been able to find it in WinDirStat unless it was just
a gig here and a gig there across many non-windows directories.

But the three gigs that they did take suggest to me that, eventually,
Windows Updates are going to eat my limited System drive. I would also
observe that, pre-application-of-updates, Windows Update said that it
would be taking less than a gig of additional space.

Not a huge deal because I can always buy a bigger SDD and/or move my
Data partition to another drive if push comes to shove.... but the
pattern seems to be the Windows Update will slowly eat your System
drive.

For somebody with a WinBook that does not allow expansion of the System
drive and whose System drive only has about 6 gigs free right out of the
box (i.e. the TW700 that I recently bought) that seems like a show
stopper.

Windows Updates under XP used to eat the System drive too, but one could
delete all the $Uninstall folders when things got tight.

Now it seems like MS has that stuff inaccessible to mere mortals.


Drivers for hardware are always optional requiring the user to 'check'
the optional update in order to install.

If you truly received a keyboard update then uninstall it to revert to
the pre-update condition. Additionally hardware (in Device Manager) has
the option to revert to the prior driver in addition to installing a driver.

It finally dawned on my to look in Programs and Features. Uninstalled.
Re-installed to the proper one and was good to go.


Have you a KB number for that MSFT keyboard update ?

No - and maybe it was one of the 3 that failed.... and therefore
incomplete. No way something as messed up as what I saw could have
gotten out the door - even from MS.


Most folks will tell you never to install optional Hardware update
unless the existing one doesn't work.

You had 120 updates for Windows 8 (you reported so in this is the Win8
group) ?

Yes. I had always gone with only "Critical" (or whatever MS calls
them) updates only but this time I thought I'd just go crazy and see
what happened. Worst case, I'd have to spend 30 minutes re-imaging -
most of it unattended - so I figured "Whyyyyy not?".

IMHO the unasked-for updates are an issue for users out there who need
their machines for work.

I can't understand why *any* update should be forced if the user has
elected to be prompted.

Seems to me like they always used to bite me when I was hot-and-heavy in
pursuit of some production problem or working to a looming deadline:
reboot for some reason and "Windows is installing XX updates...".

Used to make me crazy.
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Pete Cresswell