So I installed the 2004 feature update on my laptop and all seems well. It took quite a while though. I have to this again to another 6 or so laptops with virtually the same hardware. I was wondering ...to speed things up a little ... is there away to find and copy the installation file that windows downloads to get things started ...copy it to the other laptops and start the upgrade from there (even the downloading by windows took a long time). Maybe windows deletes this insallation file after it completes the upgrade? Any advise would be much appreciated.