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Running Windows 11 here, tons of stuff installed, including bloated Visual Studio 2022 with almost everything. Runs great, but I do have a beast of a machine.

Running Windows 11 here, tons of stuff installed, including bloated Visual Studio 2022 with almost everything. Runs great, but I do have a beast of a machine. I routinely have weeks of uptime, rebooting only to update...usually a 5 minute affair. I don't think an hour long update for Windows 11 even exists. You are right about Windows being aggressive about wanting to reboot and update, though you're able to configure 'active hours' for this to happen outside of normal usage. Furthermore, you can use the Group Policy editor to fully customize every aspect of how Windows Update works if you're running Pro, Enterprise, or Educational SKUs, thereby disabling auto-reboot if you desire.

matheusmoreira 4y ago
> I don't think an hour long update for Windows 11 even exists. One such update just happened a few hours ago at work. So I'm doing my job and Windows randomly loses its connection to the internet in the middle of my work. Who even knows why? This happens every day at work and only rebooting fixes it. So I Alt+F4 at the desktop to open the reboot/shutdown dialogue and it says "Reboot and update". I scroll up to another option that says "Reboot", and only "Reboot", and start the process. Of course the goddamn thing starts updating the second it boots back up. Not only did it disrespect explicit my choice, it wasted 48 minutes of my time doing stuff that doesn't get me paid. I know exactly how much money that time is worth. Do I get to send a bill to Microsoft?