Working on Updates (installing them) is so slow

[BladePocok]

Hi,

I've recently bought a high-end PC and the updates installing process seems quite slow. For example there was a new cumulative "patch" yesterday,and it took almost 10 mins to apply it (i don't think that it is normal in these circumstances)

Am I overreact it or is it normal?

 

[schwatzz]

Seems normal. Anything more than an hour would be a cause for concern. Though, they are working on improving Windows Update.

 

[kol12]

Hi,

I've recently bought a high-end PC and the updates installing process seems quite slow. For example there was a new cumulative "patch" yesterday,and it took almost 10 mins to apply it (i don't think that it is normal in these circumstances)

Am I overreact it or is it normal?

I just installed KB3176938 and it took less than 5 mins. Is Windows on an SSD drive? Your internet speed could play a part?

 

[BladePocok]

The Windows 10 64 bit is on a 512 GB NVMe SSD (SM951 samsung) and my internet is just fine,I can download with 30 Mb/s.

 

[wpgwpg]

It can easily take 10 min. to download and install a 330 MB (64 bit, 210 MB for 32 bit) update. With earlier versions of Windows the updates weren't cumulative so they were greatly smaller. Never fear though, come next month, Microsoft is going with cumulative updates for 7 and 8.1 as well.
Of course that's good news and bad news. For those of us with fast download speeds, it means you don't have to download & install a couple of hundred update files. But for those still with slow download speeds, leaving automatic updates on gets prohibitively slow.

 

[kol12]

It would also depend on whether you had any of the other recent cumulative updates already installed, if not it would have to install the whole package instead of just any changes to the already installed updates.

 

[Colif]

It can easily take 10 min. to download and install a 330 MB (64 bit, 210 MB for 32 bit) update. With earlier versions of Windows the updates weren't cumulative so they were greatly smaller. Never fear though, come next month, Microsoft is going with cumulative updates for 7 and 8.1 as well.
Of course that's good news and bad news. For those of us with fast download speeds, it means you don't have to download & install a couple of hundred update files. But for those still with slow download speeds, leaving automatic updates on gets prohibitively slow.

OMG, imagine the size of a cumulative update from fresh install of win 7... my old internet connection would have just given up and said, see you tomorrow

If you have Version 1607 there has only been one update since then so the cumulative from 1607 is only going to be small now. 1607 already included all the updates when it was released last month. Fact we get a new version of windows 10 every 8 months also reduces the actual size of the cumulative updates so it will be a long time before their size becomes too big to consider - probably after windows 11 is ever released.
Thinking about it, its probably easier for Microsoft to never make a new windows but instead just release a new version of win 10 every 8 months or so. Any new features can be rolled into it then and they still make just as much money selling an always up to date OS rather than having to make a new one every few years. Someone said they eventually just drop the 10 and call it Windows, and that makes sense too as no one will ever wonder when next version is due.

 

[BladePocok]

I'm checking every update daily,so there is no "jam" in the order. It was just strange,that a small update takes "so long" to apply.

 

[Colif]

Well, one update a month will be slower as it includes the malicious software tool which scans hdd and removes anything windows finds offensive - or at least, harmful to windows. I notice they come out on a Wednesday so looking every day is a little excessive