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An hour if you're lucky :-) I think I haven't been able, in the last years, to update a Windows 7 SP1, without using hacks.
by pizza234 7y ago
An hour if you're lucky :-)
I think I haven't been able, in the last years, to update a Windows 7 SP1, without using hacks.
- Arnavion 7y agoI'm not sure what you two are doing. My Windows 7 machine has no problem finding new updates in ~1 min and installs them just fine also.
- wott 7y agoWell, like I, they simply launch "Search for new updates" and "Install new updates", and each of those operations can take dozens of minutes. I mean, in the lucky cases the first one completes. The downloading step is the most infuriating, with a progress bar that never progresses for several minutes, although the download is just supposed to be a few tens or a few hundreds of Mo.
- pizza234 7y agoFresh installs have a large (for Windows Update standards, which are rock-bottom) number of updates to download, compared to a currently updated one. AFAIR (not 100% sure) some Windows Update fixes have been released after Windows 7 SP1 (which is the last available image), which means, in order to install a fresh system and update it, one has to install the O/S, then patch, then update. So this explain at least some cases. Although, I remember that even after patching, WU would hang.
- Arnavion 7y agoFor fresh installs, sure I can imagine it taking a long time. The typical case is an existing install though, for which it should be as fast as I said.