One could hope this would cut run time by that much. They could cut ~42% of excess CPU usage by not doing what their documentation says not to do (calling QueryPerformanceFrequency more than once). But I think it's sufficiently focused on Win10 development that problems with Win7 fade into the background, not rising above ambient noise level. Grrrr.įrankly, I don't think Microsoft is intentionally slowing down Windows 7 updates. What this means is that I have to reconnect to the computer, relog in, and install the failed update. After installing, a high percentage have at least one failing update, although it's a different update in each case. I'm just now getting some update dialog boxes, after well more than an hour.
Over the past few months the "Checking." process has taken longer and longer, but it's never before been as slow as this. So far this morning I have nine Win7Ent machines, in different geographical locations, that have been stuck on "Checking for updates." for 45 minutes as of this writing. If I were conspiracy minded, I'd think that MS is deliberately making the Win7/8 update process harder so the Win10 AutoUpdate process looks better. Instead, would-be updaters are floundering for an hour, two hours, six hours, trying to get a list of available Windows updates. The latest kernel patch, KB 3139852, looked like a savior at one point (for reasons unknown), but it fizzled out, too. 19161, from KB 3138612 - would help, but for many people, that doesn't work. They're people who keep their machines up to date and simply want to see the latest Win7 patches.Īt one point, it appeared as if installing the latest Windows Update Client - version. The complainants aren't engaged in a Marquis de Sade re-enactment of building a new Win7 from scratch. In the past two days, has been flooded with even more complaints. Late last month, Ed Bott on ZDNet reported that it took him more than 24 hours to similarly install Win7 Pro.
On several occasions, I simply gave up in disgust and moved to another task.
In both cases, it took overnight to complete the task. On the other, I picked specific updates and applied them manually. In one, I relied on Automatic Update to pull down and install all of the "checked" updates, except for the "Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, version 1511, 10586" optional update. This month, the gripes have reached a crescendo, and it's time for Microsoft to fix it.īack in March, I created two squeaky-clean installations of Windows 7, starting with a Microsoft-created copy of Windows 7 Service Pack 1. For several months, I've seen complaints about slow Windows 7 updates.
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