#ALIENWARE SOFTWARE SAYS CURRENT TIME UPDATE#
I can try canceling again, but I'd eventually like to get this BIOS update installed and move on. It seems the "other" update was installed successfully because the updater says that it's installing update 2/2 with the Alienware m15 / m17 BIOS update as the current process. Since this is a BIOS update, I certainly don't want to do anything to suddenly interrupt the process and "brick" my pretty new laptop, but I'll eventually need to power it off and unplug it from power so I don't kill the battery.
It again found the BIOS update (along with one other update) and started downloading/installing. Eventually, however, it seemed to complete the "canceling" process, and I was able to start the update again once I got the computer home. After a good 45 minutes of watching it just "spin", I clicked the Cancel button, which caused the updater to change to indicate that it was cancelling, but it still just kept "spinning". The first time, I was at my office and just trying to get some of those updates done before I took my new computer home. I've left the computer on and plugged in while it tried to apply this update for several hours, but it just sits there with the progress bar sliding across in "marquee" style (no actual percentage of progress displayed, just the animation of the bar sliding across over and over again). The Windows updates seem to have installed properly, but when I go to the Alienware Updates app, it seems to "hang" indefinitely trying to apply a new BIOS update.
I just received my new Alienware m17 R3 laptop and started the process of downloading/installing all the updates.