Windows 10: Windows 10 Updates Take Forever!

That isn't the issue though really. Even as standard you can download the update and carry on working.

Perhaps it takes 5 minutes or 5 hours to download - it doesn't matter really.

What does matter and what we don't know is how long the upgrade process will take (i.e. when you click on "restart now" or "Shut down and upgrade"). That isn't linked to the size of the download though - it depends what copying etc the upgrade process is doing. Inevitably you'll be doing that when you want to leave for the day or go to bed or whatever.

Leaving it turned on overnight (and hoping the cleaner doesn't nick your laptop) seems to work. Just as it did with XP.

 

Bree said:
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>>A simple feature that would make life much, much easier for most of us humble Windows 10 users would be receiving simply a >>message informing us OF THE SIZE of the update to be downloaded / installed...

> There's some info in the KB article for each update...

And where pray-tell can one find the KB article ... There's a little "Windows Notification" icon that lights up on the bottom left-hand-side of the screen whenever IT'S USED to "notify" us of things. Why won't the good folks at Microsoft just use that to inform us of THE SIZE of their upcoming updates or SEND A LINK VIA THAT SERVICE to the "KB article..."?

 

Yes, one CAN have one's internet effectively FREEZE while said update downloads onto one's machine while one's at a Starbucks, etc ... but even beside that, even after the update is downloaded onto one's device, one then is often asked to "restart the computer" so that the update could take hold ... YET WE'RE NOT TOLD HOW LONG THE COMPUTER WILL BE INSTALLING THE UPDATE. We're told its "30% done" or "57% done" and we're told, of course not to shut off our computer in the meantime ... But we're still not told if this is a 5 MB update or a 5 GB one and again that'd be important to know BEFORE one decides to shutdown / restart the computer so that the downloaded update could be installed.

 

Settings > Update & security > Windows Update > Learn more

 

I just checked for updates and needed 1 so I decided to document it for you.