I am trying to install Windows 7 in VirtualBox, but since it's pretty outdated, it finds like 150 updates and chokes while downloading/installing them. It estimates the download size at 1GB+, svchost.exe and TrustedInstaller.exe show gigabytes of read/write activity and it's been chewing the hard drive for a few days already. The VM has 4GB of RAM and task manager never shows that all of it is used, so I suppose disk activity isn't related to swapping.
Question: how do I get fine-grained control over update process? I don't want to click a button and know nothing about what's happening under the curtain. I suppose that when Windows finds updates, it builds an ordered list of them (or a list consisting of groups of updates that must be installed together). I want to see that list and I need a way to cherry-pick each of them and install them manually. Is it possible? How?
