Windows sat at 1 of 12 overnight and was still there this morning, so I just shut it down and restarted it. Now Windows Update shows 11 Windows updates, so I guess maybe that 1 of 12 got installed but never progressed to two. (There are two other "Important" updates, but I think I hadn't check-marked them. One is for Office 2007, when I have Office 2003; I think maybe there's a 2007 trial version somewhere on this computer. The other is for SQL Server 2008, which is always there and never updates; I don't have Server 2008, and I have removed references to it wherever I can find them in the Registry, etc.; and I can't get it to reinstall, either.)
I am going to try check-marking only one or two Updates at a time to see if that works. Unfortunately, when I click OK after doing that, I am returned to the Get Windows 10 screen instead of the Install Updates screen; they only appear in the Shut down button, so I can only install them by shutting down and then rebooting.
I have attached screen clips of the other two errors I am getting consistently; the one gives a Microsoft link for the error; typically per Microsoft, it doesn't address the error, or at least it doesn't resolve it.
I run Virtual XP on this computer because I had two or three graphics programs, a music-composition program, and a flatbed scanner that wouldn't work in Windows 7. I discovered that two of my most-used graphics programs work on Windows 8 apparently because my W7 is on a 64-bit system and my W8 is on a 32-bit system. The scanner is a UMAX Astra 1220 U, and UMAX chose not to provide Windows 7 and beyond drivers for it. I've looked for years for a driver, and I finally found one last week, which Microsoft didn't like but Norton said was safe. Microsoft was sort of right, as I had to restore my laptop several times apparently because of it or its program; however, the scanner now shows up as available and functioning properly both in Devices and Printers and in Device Manager, yet Paint, Photoshop Essentials, and other programs can't seem to see it, so I can't use it. If I could get it to work, I might consider giving up my music program (and use the Windows 8 app, which is similar) and then install Windows 10 on this computer.
This long explanation is for the question, would installing Windows 10 on top of a broken Windows 7 resolve the issues or just make them worse? And, though it should be in a separate post, is there a way to get the UMAX scanner recognized by programs that can actually use it? And I guess a third question:
I think the installation disk for my music program is on a 4.5" floppy disk, so I just copied all the files over; it begins to load, but, when I choose the style, it says there's a protection error in a specified .dll file. Is this something that can be fixed "unprotected"? Or is the "Incompatible program" error I received once while trying it correct?
(I think I helped Shane find some errors in Windows Repair for W10, so I don't feel *quite* as guilty about all the time you've spent here. lol BTW, the last time I went to use Windows Repair, it said there was a new version, 3.5.1, but the website page still said 3.5.0; I tried the download anyhow, and it showed 3.5.1. Maybe he just hadn't had time to change the webpage yet?)
Anyhow, thanks some more!
