[launcher fails, then reports that i need "win7 sp1 or higher"]

and 4.0.2 loaded without issue...  happy day!

[launcher fails, then reports that i need "win7 sp1 or higher"]

and now i have SP1, almost three years after it was rolled out!

 

i apologize about the snarky response to the suggestion about using Win Update...  i'm so anal about updates, i manually check for updates several times a week

 

and i always click on 'check for updates' even if the initial screen says 'no new updates found'...  i'm always surprised how many new updates pop up after seeing that!

 

so... i had always assumed that i was completely completely updated...  but WU never auto-updated SP1 and never asked if i wanted to manually update to it

 

(i did think it was unusual that the 'windows edition' screen didn't specifically say anything about any service packs, so i d/led the x64 build, and 40 minutes later... i'm all 'packed up'!)

 

lesson learned = never assume

 

now i'm off to try loading build 4.0.2

[launcher fails, then reports that i need "win7 sp1 or higher"]

hmmm...  i'll assume that Win Update never offered me SP1, even though it's faithfully delivered hundreds of updates since 2011?

 

here's the KB   

 

d/ling it now... keep your fingers crossed for me

[launcher fails, then reports that i need "win7 sp1 or higher"]

windows update runs automatically every tuesday.

 

but i'll run it again manually right now

 

 

edit:   no updates found, of course

 

 

launcher still fails, as it has failed each update since 3.5.11

 

is there a launcher log that might help?

[launcher fails, then reports that i need "win7 sp1 or higher"]

my win7 home premium says 'version 6.1', am i locked out of using paint.net?

 

paint.net 3.5.11 is as high as i can go, darn it!