windows update fun

[DrLeftover]

Today the "windows 8 to 10 laptop" I use down here a couple of times a week went through a major update.

TWO HOURS of "getting windows ready...." then two restarts and all that crap.

But now it's sitting on the other side of the table with task manager running, and I get to watch "Antimalware service executable" compete with "microsoft compatibility telemetry" and "edge update" and "microsoft windows search indexer" AND "service host: windows update" for enough resources to run.

The combination has redlined system resources several times.

And, no, nothing else is running, just the windows 10 crap. It won't do anything else for at least a couple of hours. Trust me on that one.

Here's to hoping windows 10 end of support is the end of this sort of fun.

 

[DrLeftover]

Antimalware is STILL running on that machine.

 

[Grungie]

Here's to hoping windows 10 end of support is the end of this sort of fun.

Spoiler alert…

 

[Webster]

Today the "windows 8 to 10 laptop" I use down here a couple of times a week went through a major update.

TWO HOURS of "getting windows ready...." then two restarts and all that crap.

But now it's sitting on the other side of the table with task manager running, and I get to watch "Antimalware service executable" compete with "microsoft compatibility telemetry" and "edge update" and "microsoft windows search indexer" AND "service host: windows update" for enough resources to run.

The combination has redlined system resources several times.

And, no, nothing else is running, just the windows 10 crap. It won't do anything else for at least a couple of hours. Trust me on that one.

Here's to hoping windows 10 end of support is the end of this sort of fun.

And this is another reason why I will have nothing to do with any computer (desktop/laptop/smartphone/tablet/etc.) that runs on Windows.

The systems' run good but God the updates are just shit. And God forbid you skip an update period....

 

[KO896]

My update the other day went fairly quickly, but I've had some that go for hours and it's annoying! What I hate is when you choose your own antivirus software and then Windows chooses to make THEIRS the default...which means you're running two at the same time and it lags the system so bad you can't do anything. I warn people about that happening all the time because it didn't just happen to me.

 

[Webster]

My update the other day went fairly quickly, but I've had some that go for hours and it's annoying! What I hate is when you choose your own antivirus software and then Windows chooses to make THEIRS the default...which means you're running two at the same time and it lags the system so bad you can't do anything. I warn people about that happening all the time because it didn't just happen to me.

Now you know why I like Chrome OS - its updates in the background without hogging up your PC.
Same can be said for both Opera & Firefox.

 

[Grungie]

My update the other day went fairly quickly, but I've had some that go for hours and it's annoying! What I hate is when you choose your own antivirus software and then Windows chooses to make THEIRS the default...which means you're running two at the same time and it lags the system so bad you can't do anything. I warn people about that happening all the time because it didn't just happen to me.

Tbh, all you really need is Windows Defender anyway.

 

[KO896]

Tbh, all you really need is Windows Defender anyway.

Yep, that event of the update taking the default is why I just went ahead and stuck with Windows defender anyway. No reason to keep fighting them.

 

[passenger]

Tbh, all you really need is Windows Defender anyway.

I used to run 'pay' programs until one of our ISP techs (local) told me that Windows Defender was all that I needed; that I was wasting my $$ on the others.
No big buggie problems since I dropped the others; yet; knock-on-wood!

 

[Grungie]

I used to run 'pay' programs until one of our ISP techs (local) told me that Windows Defender was all that I needed; that I was wasting my $$ on the others.
No big buggie problems since I dropped the others; yet; knock-on-wood!

Some of the other ones do have some extra features, but if you’re just doing normie tier internet browsing like 90% of people, you don’t really need anything else.