[dba-Tech] Windows update hell

[John Colby]

Every time I think I've managed to turn off Windows updates, it magically
resurrects itself. And I have turned off the service.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 7:34 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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