This is more of a curiosity question, but why does it take hours to update from one build to the next?
I'm going from 10041 to 10049 and it's been running for about two-and-a-half hours now. It's currently at 20%.
Seems like the update to 10041 took a long time as well, but I wasn't trying to use the PC at the time, so it wasn't quite as annoying.
I mean, I know my system is an older one, (Core 2 Quad Q6600, 8GB RAM, and no SSD), but it seems to be taking a lot longer than it should.
Is it just me, or is this normal?
Mostly has to do with your internet download speed, and how much the servers are throttled back to account for the number of people downloading at the time. My install only took about 40 minutes to completion.
It does take a long time on some pc's and download speeds might be in that too. I read others didn't take that long.
Welcome to 10blog hope it all goes well for you.
Oh, that makes perfect sense. I figured it would pre-load the update files and not download them in-stream while doing it. I guess it doesn't help that I'm using half the bandwidth for other things then. Must pause software downloads on Steam for the other PC I'm playing with then.Mostly has to do with your internet download speed, and how much the servers are throttled back to account for the number of people downloading at the time. My install only took about 40 minutes to completion.
My main desktop PC upgraded from build 10041 without undue delay and works much better. Build 10041 was a disaster for me, and was an upgrade from an earlier build.
On my laptop, I upgraded a copy of Windows 8.0 to build 10041. This appears to work OK. I tried to upgrade to build 10049. It got stuck at 30% and after a couple of hours I pressed the power off switch. When I powered back on the PC reverted back to build 10041.
Taking forever here too, and my Internet connection rocks. I loaded up 10041 and am now upgrading to 10049. Been sitting at 2% for a really long time. Tempted to bag it.
Which are you talking about? Download or upgrade?Taking forever here too, and my Internet connection rocks. I loaded up 10041 and am now upgrading to 10049. Been sitting at 2% for a really long time. Tempted to bag it.
Downloading is slow, sure. Then the upgrade is also very slow - for me it sits on 3% for 20/30 minutes. The whole upgrade took 3 or 4 hours. It is much faster if you have downloaded the ESD to convert it into an ISO and just clean install. Clean install is 10 minutes or so.
My upgrade on an old Dell has been going over 5 hrs and is stuck at 30%. Even after the file downloaded, it was as slow as a dog. Heaven knows what it was doing to take this time. Restarted and back to 10041. 10049 just doesn't like this older comp. Don't know why it takes so long to find out, though!
My main machine took about 40 min. Thank goodness for that.
Win7pro deactivated itself, won't accept any updates, MS could not fix. Finally purchased and downloaded Win10pro but only would start after I powercycled the pc. Now it has been running 2 hrs but its only downloaded 618,027 but its Uploaded 1,765,205 bytes!? Thats not checking for updates! That is stealing my data!
