Today's edition of *headdesk*

[bktheirregular]

Desktop computer finally reached a point where I had to do a fresh installation of Windows. After a couple of crashes necessitating recoveries from backups, the thing worked, sort of, but it had gotten ... manky.

Backed up all the critical stuff, installed without a hitch, connected my wireless network adapter, and then ran the Windows Update.

Which wanted to install, by my actual count, ninety-five separate patches.