Is It Possible to Install Win 7 SP1 in Safe Mode

[DavidNJ]

It won't install in regular mode...Safe Mode says administrator doesn't have the privileges.

Suggestions?

[zanzabar]

you cannot update windows in safe mode. what error code do u get in windows (non safe mode)

[RADCOM]

Short answer is "No". Administrator account is disabled by default in W7 I believe, you could enable it or make your normal user account a member of the administrators group.

[Ket]

If its the error message saying Win 7 can't be updated to SP1, click the link in the window and download the 300MB file and run it. W7 SP1 should install no problems then. If that isn't the issue you are describing google "grant admin full control", its a registry patch. Apply it, boot to safe mode, right-click the SP1 update package, select "grant admin full control", then try running it.

[DavidNJ]

I'll try that last one...I've been hammered with other stuff and haven't gotten back to it.

What surprises me the most is how fragile Windows has become. The move the x64 strengthened the internals, moving the parameters on the internal structures up to 21st century levels from the levels thought optimistic in 1988 when NT was specified. However, the operations at the borders are crazy. The OS has fairly fundamental stuff, .Net Framework params needed to pass .Net Verifier, that can't be reconstructed. The registry is a horrid, easily corrupted pseudo-database with virtual no protections. It has other problems that aren't logged in way that is diagnosable. A closed system, the level of support isn't adequate for what in many cases is a black box.

Meanwhile, Microsoft itself in many ways resembles IBM in the 1980s. A big part of its operation is maintaining legacy software. For IBM that was Cobol, CICS, DB2. For Microsoft it is Visual Basic, a bunch of dated Windows protocols, and SQL Server. SQL Server should probably not be on the list; it actually seems to be a pretty decent database. As versions of Linux become increasingly ubiquitous, we are probably just waiting for the major Windows apps to reappear there in a fully functional way. In an odd way, the Linux-derived Android OS may be the catalyst there.

[DavidNJ]

If its the error message saying Win 7 can't be updated to SP1, click the link in the window and download the 300MB file and run it. W7 SP1 should install no problems then. If that isn't the issue you are describing google "grant admin full control", its a registry patch. Apply it, boot to safe mode, right-click the SP1 update package, select "grant admin full control", then try running it.

The references talked about permissions at the file level. Are you saying that control only needs to be given to the update file?

[RADCOM]

can you give us the error message you get in normal mode? is this a space issue?

[DavidNJ]

It crashed a few times...the last was a sharing error. In the process the .Net Framework became corrupted, event viewer can't load the MMC.

The disk a SATA II 6Gb/s 2TB disk, single partition, 1.73GB of 1.81GB free. I had tried a 64GB Crucial C300 SSD, but that was just not large enough. I cloned the disk to the other drive, which I got on sale at NewEgg earlier for $80.