[dba-Tech] Windows update hell

John Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 18:34:23 CDT 2021


Mine took a looooong damned time the last time. Probably over an hour.  On
an ssd.  Not sure why.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 7:16 PM Jon Tydda <jon at tydda.plus.com> wrote:

> I manage updates for over 1200 devices, physical and virtual, and I’ve
> never seen one take that long.
>
> Even the upgrade installation of Windows 10 on a laptop with Win 8.1 on a
> slow HDD didn’t take that long. I would suggest that there might be
> something wrong with your computer…
>
>
> Jon
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 19 Jun 2021, at 23:49, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Win 10 updates can now take up to ten hours. Anybody aware of a reason
> why one ought not to simply disable the Windows Update serviceB
> >
> > PN
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John W. Colby
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