Windows updates - venting

Qui-Gon John · Post by **Qui-Gon John** » Tue May 17, 2016 3:00 pm

Ever since Windows 10 came along and it's FORCED updates, I have noticed any Windows Updates seem to take much longer. Especially when you go to start the updates, it sits on 0% FOREVER. Once the download actually starts, it is not too slow, but very AGGRAVATING!!!

If MS is gonna force updates, they need to vamp up their update servers to handle all the additional traffic.

nwrickert · Post by **nwrickert** » Wed May 18, 2016 11:00 am

I'm seeing fast updates on Windows 8.1, very slow updates on Windows 7, and extremely slow updates on Vista.

I'm guessing here. It looks to me as if Microsoft is doing some kind of queuing. You are put into a queue before you can begin downloading. Once you reach the front of the queue, the downloading and installing is fast enough.

And it is looking to me as if Microsoft has worsened the queuing priority for Windows 7, and worsened it far more for Vista.

This is also affecting anti-virus updates, for those who use MSE. I recently posted about this on my blog:
Does Microsoft care about security?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed May 18, 2016 11:42 am

What hardware are you on? They fly through on my Win10 rigs, and on clients rigs. But we're doing on new, fast hardware, SSD, 8 or 16 gigs of RAM, etc.

Only changes in updates over the past year I've seen, fresh rebuilds of Windows 7...that first round of updates can sniff and sniff for hours until the first 220 something updates show up and get downloaded/installed. But there a couple of tricks to speed that up.