How crap is Windows update?

[baz1]

Have you checked your settings regarding Windows updates?

yes all checked just ran HP diagnostics no probs found its just taken 45 mins from turning on to password box showing

[jeallen01]

Have you checked your settings regarding Windows updates?

yes all checked just ran HP diagnostics no probs found its just taken 45 mins from turning on to password box showing

Clone the HDD to an SSD, and - "in time" - that will fall to a couple of minutes or probably less

All our "old " m/c's boot to the desktop in less than 2 mins (MAX!).

[baz1]

just had a look at Msconfig to see whats running on start up, i'll list whats running tomorrow thanks for your input guys

[Mike]

My laptop got this update yesterday and it only took about 3 or 4 minutes to shut down yesterday evening while it prepared the update, fired it up this morning and it took about the same length of time to install. One of the quickest updates yet.
I feel your pain Baz, hopefully you can get to the bottom of the issue and get it sorted quickly.

[baz1]

pleased to hear it worked ok for you Mike, the weird thing is I had this problem all yesterday even a restart took for ever so today I sat down in front of the wretched thing with a cuppa to pass the time while it booted up and low and behold no problem at all, even when shutting it down it was still running and had to hold the start button in to stop it or I would have fell asleep waiting.

[Mike]

Great stuff Baz, is it all sorted now?

[baz1]

well it seems so Mike, but? i'm wondering what will happen if I do a restart??? as that was taking forever.

[baz1]

do I tempt fate ???

[Mike]

Aye, go for it!!!

[baz1]

Aye, go for it!!!

here goes

[baz1]

yippee no probs all very weird

[Mike]

Yay!!!!!

[big john]

My Laptop has just done an update for an intel driver. maybe that corrected something Microsoft did? although I haven't had the update you mentioned Baz

[baz1]

just checked updates, and now its saying feature update Windows 10 version 1909.
your'e currently running a version of windows that's nearing the end of service, we recommend you update to the most recent version to get the latest features and security improvements.
I would have thought that would have updated its self as normal?

[big john]

How very strange! That's the version that updated itself yesterday on my laptop.

[baz1]

How very strange! That's the version that updated itself yesterday on my laptop.

yes I thought it would have updated on Friday night but never did that update I know I'm running version 1908

[James Cutting]

I think you have to upgrade to the next version in line before jumping to the latest (2004), which is a pain! Hope you guys all get it sorted.

[baz1]

I think you have to upgrade to the next version in line before jumping to the latest (2004), which is a pain! Hope you guys all get it sorted.

just upgraded to version 1909 now up and running after 7hrs now to sort what goes were, a pain!

[jeallen01]

Still basically totally fine with Windows Update (when run from an SSD!) - but the lowest spec PC here (a circa 2012 nettop with a very low power AMD "E" series dual core processor, but an SSD!) got the updates this morning. Everything worked until I got a message that some updates could not installed and then it rolled those back to the previous installation! Tried again - same result! Each "update" process took about 2hrs from start to finish.

OTOH, one update DID install successfully at the first attempt!

So then I investigated further by separately checking out each failed update (not difficult, but time-consuming!) - turned out that 5 (out of the 6 listed) were NOT applicable to this little m/c! So, my "beef" was/is that W Update should not try to install updates that don't apply to a particular m/c!

PS: I should probably add that all the m/c's (except one - which is not that nettop - on which I write this post) are connected to the router by cabled Gb Ethernet - and that probably helps, but the sole Wifi-connected unit doesn't seem to be that much slower to update.

[baz1]

not impressed with this version just when you get used to one OS the whole lot changes and you have to start all over again, I hate change, all favourites down the R/H side instead of favourites bar at the top etc