Posted on 09/22/2016 12:16:55 PM PDT by Jed Eckert
How long does this take? Started updating at 10:00 am today. It is now 3:00 pm and I'm at the gray screen with the spinning dots. It already did the 'percent' screen and several restarts. Just wondering how much longer.
You can go to settings>update and security>advanced options and select “notify to schedule restart”.
When an update comes it then lets you schedule installation so it’s convenient.
Worth doing for this one.
You just think it’s a friendly little update. Instead, it’s updating their data mining from your personal private bought and paid for computer.
I went thru this update a week ago. It took longer than the actual Win 10 upgrade!!
1067 took over 2 hours on my computer.
When all was said and done, I disabled Cortana an Skype. Skype would start when my computer started and it seem to slow it down.
I haven’t had any issues at all.
A friend of mine did this update lastnight. It took her computer a few hours and afterward, she said her computer was talking to her!! I can only think it was Cortana. I told her to turn that and Skype off.
Meanwhile, her FireFox browser crashed and she was disgusted and shut it down for the evening.
Today, seems to be much better for her.
Tolerated this silliness for over three hours on Tuesday. Finally cut the power despite the screen exhortation to the contrary.
Took two more reboots to get to a recovery point.
Then dumped the updates.
Time to stop dealing with the most arrogant software ever foist upon the public.
Linux, here I come.
Mine just happened today...about 90 minutes.
Most businesses of size internally manage their patching. They don’t rely on “Automatic Updates”. The problem with Win-10 Enterprise is that Microsoft intrudes into that area to an unprecedented degree preventing companies from “ala carte” installations of only the patches they believe they need. They’re using the stick approach with corporate America too (IMO a huge mistake).
Mine updated and is waiting to restart at 3:30 tomorrow morning, but I’ll do it right after I watch NCIS.
Classic Shell makes Windows 10 look pretty much like Windows 7.
Same here! Both desktops, one laptop & my Surface Pro 3 all done seamlessly with no problems & all networked together. I have a hard time understanding why people have such problems.
Will this actually fix problems?
Microsoft wants to use your pc to update other pcs like BitTorrent except you do not get free music and software and see the latest movie....only Windows 10 updates. Maybe a faster way but they are using your data and pc.
In Windows 10 Cortana will cause the Start button unable to be clicked on nor will you be able to right click on program icons on the taskbar and your wifi may not work....
No fix as I went thru this 3 times in one weekend this month.
I am now using Windows 7.
#28 then going for Bible reading
Are you praying that Windows will work after the update? : )
I searched “install Mint” and watched a video. Didn’t need the entire 12 minutes to grasp that installing Linux is several Dantean heaven levels above my capabilities.
But thank you for suggesting it anyway :)
If you have a DVD burner on your working computer.
Go to Distrowatch and download the ISO. (Select Mint, scroll down until you see ISO under the latest version, click on that, and then select a convenient download site)
Burn it to a DVD
Set your computer with the new hard drive to boot from the DVD drive first. (Keystroke for getting to that menu varies by brand, usually either F12, Esc or F1 when you first turn the computer on.
Reboot your computer with the DVD in the tray of the computer with the new hard drive.
Follow the on-screen prompts.
NOTE: it is more difficult if you have a working computer and you want to load Linux alongside, instead of overwriting your existing operating system. THAT is not for the faint of heart newby unless you want to risk trashing the existing set up.
NOTE 2: You can buy a DVD with the system already on it for a small fee covering the cost of the DVD, mail, and a small profit for the supplyer.
NOTE 3: If you don’t have a DVD burner and reader available on the respective machines, it can be done with a thumb drive, but I’ve never attempted that.
I hope every FReeper on a metered broadband connection, like a WiFi hot spot like Straight Talk, has changed the corresponding setting in Win 10. No use paying for bandwidth for MSFT to download stuff to your computer you don’t need.
The Anniversary Win 10 upgrade is massive, size wise, and takes awhile (hours) to install and update the software. Computers with less than 4GB of memory will take forever.
Me? Win 7 forever, updates turned off.
Mine took about an hour when I turned it on one morning this week. I have no idea when it downloaded (I shut off the laptop every night). IE STILL does not work - hasn’t since the 8.1 upgrade, but now Edge won’t work either. Outside of that, no problems with the update.
A note on your Note 3:
Newer PCs can be set to boot from a flash/thumb drive. PCs more than four years old most likely don’t support that.
I had to use Cortana to find IE, it wouldn’t even show up on the start menu, and it was taken off my task bar. But I have it back now.
Maybe that’s why I haven’t tried it - none of my machines are that new.
Me, too, and I have a bottom-of-the-line Surface 3.
You can’t replace the drive?
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