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2oldman
Explorer II
Jul 31, 2019

Windows update before hell freezes over

Good lord, an hour and 10 minutes and I'm still seeing "Working on updates.. 24%. Don't turn off your PC." What is it doing.. downloading the Library of Congress ?

I'm about ready to throw it across the room.

35 Replies

  • Ooh. it just went from 60% to 57%. That's right, backwards.

    I'm on my Chromebook now, never has these problems as there's no hard drive.
  • RoyB's avatar
    RoyB
    Explorer II
    I'm running two computers here in my console... My good computer with all my personnal stuff on it and this ole beat up laptop just for Social media...

    Nothing important on it here - can reload windows anytime if need be and not worry about losing anything...

    My internet speed here is 100MB Dn and 5MB Up

    We are under thunderstorm alert here so it may be closes and loser now...

    Hope it doesn't suck up any of those Grass Hopers out West...

    Roy Ken
  • RoyB's avatar
    RoyB
    Explorer II
    My computer slowed down as well after talking with you earlier... I ran MALWARE check and rebooted... It didn't give me indication it was downloading something... Looks pretty good now speed wise????

    Think I am OK now???
  • I have a very fast internet connection. It's been sitting at 27% for 20.. oh wait, it's rebooting....

    I worked in computing in the 90s. anything that took this long would be updating millions of records.

    I may be missing the smaller updates.. I'd sure prefer that to doing this sure-you-can-have-my-computer-all-day operation. I told it to do this last night but apparently it didn't hear me.
  • Unfortunately W10 updates are often very large. Hence a slow internet connection just compounds the delay and especially if the internet provider turns on the brakes. So it's kinda slow and slower and yours is really slow for whatever reason.

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