Wow how slow is Windows 10 at updating? Also how to prevent it updating in future?

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The moment I've been dreading has arrived and despite putting off the latest update as long as possible, Windows has decided it's going to force me to apply updates.

Seriously, how can it be this slow? It's taken about 10 mins and it's only up to 21% with promises of several reboots.

Is there any way in future to permanently block updates until I choose a convenient moment to install them? Thanks.

 

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Right it's finished and 'only' took about 50 mins so not as bad as it first seemed (still ridiculous though). But what really annoyed me at the end was the permissions I was being asked to agree to; I could only choose to send back basic usage details rather than everything (why not an option for no usage details?) and also to accept either relevant or not relevant adverts, but still receive adverts (why any adverts at all as I paid for this OS?). I can't trust them to push things even further next time, with no option but to keep accepting more and more terms that are disagreeable to me.

I do appreciate nothing has changed and it's always been this way with Windows 10. I appreciate this is just a reminder about things I'd put at the back of my mind. I also do use this machine occasionally for gaming (well my son does mostly) and so have to keep Windows on it. But I've really, really had enough of Windows now.

Time to look again at MacOS (and I can't stand their new keyboards) or move to Linux full time for everything non-gaming.

 

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I don't get it, some systems seem to update nice and fast while others are a nightmare. My desktop took less than 10 mins, my miner around 25 mins and thats a e5500, with 6gb ram and a hypetec firestorm ssd. Now my laptop, 6700hq, 32gb ram and 1tb ssd took an absolute age, probably a couple of hours or more.

For reference mine is a hex core 3930k (at standard speed), 24gb RAM, SSD. It's also connected to the router over ethernet rather than wifi. While it was updating my son complained that Fortnite on the XBox was lagging. So I suspect it was downloading a lot. If your internet connection is slow, or if your internal network is slow (such as wifi) then that could be the reason?

 

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That's actually a good question. Every time there's a massive update to W10 there isn't anything new. All that happens is that a few settings screens are moved around so I can't find the damn thing anymore.

I'm still using W10 on my desktop machine. But I've now moved full time to Linux on my laptop (I've dabbled with it on and off over the years and am quite comfortable with it). I'll run that for a few months and see how I feel before relegating the desktop machine to a dual boot W10 for my sons gaming only and Linux for the main boot. At the moment it's going great.

 

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I would be wary of windows 10 dual boot - they have made other partitions appear unallocated in previous updates; the recent X: partition thread too.

Thanks. Yes I'm aware. When I dual boot what I do is have a separate SSD and switch between them in the BIOS.

I know it's early days but I'm genuinely preferring Linux at the moment. Aside from gaming and maybe MS Office I can't see me going back to W10. I've even got it looking better than W10.

 

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Oh you talked about MS forum, not OCUK forum.

Yes I had seen these links before and already replied it but you had gone pulled back same arguement yet again.

I showed this thread to my friend IT teacher I told you and he were laughed at you at your pointless arguments, he told me it seemed everybody (teachers, pupils and his dad, cousins, all his friends included me) has a home laptop running Windows 10 Home don't have issue with automatic windows update. If you go to PC World site and you will find 243 laptops and 108 desktops running Windows 10 Home, millions bought these PCs and don't have a problem with automatic update. He suggested you to stop waste your time kept posted all pointless arguments on OCUK or Microsoft forum, you are the minority so he agreed with me that it is very good idea you should sent messages to Microsoft direct on either Facebook or Twitter so there the list again.

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

https://www.facebook.com/Satyanadella92/
https://twitter.com/satyanadella

Gabriel Aul, Microsoft VP, WDG Engineering Systems team (former Lead of Windows Insider program)

https://www.facebook.com/gabriel.aul
https://twitter.com/GabeAul?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Dona Sarkar, Microsoft Lead of Windows Insider program (former software engineer for Windows Vista)

https://www.facebook.com/literati
https://twitter.com/donasarkar?lang=en

Panos Panay, Microsoft Chief Product Officer/VP of Devices (former Windows division)

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011327963044
https://twitter.com/panos_panay?lang=en

The vast, vast majority of customers continue to buy Windows laptops because they don't know what other options there are or can't afford a MacBook. For them there is simply no other alternative. But that's not the same as saying they don't have issues.

Anyway, it's too late for me. Regardless of what other people do, Windows 10 updates were what caused me to drop windows and move to Linux for everything except occasional gaming. Rather than complain and be ignored by a company I will simply stop using their product.