Windows 7 updates have intentionally gotten slow ( conspiracy )

submitted by glugglug

As yet another way to push people into 10.

When I got new laptops one of the first things I noticed is the updates in 10 are now applied in a multi-threaded way and peg all 8 logical processors.

On my Windows 7 desktop, the CPU reaches about 4% during updates that take awhile, with the SSD and HDD pool both practically idle. It isn't waiting on I/O or CPU-bound, it's just sleeping a lot during the update.

HarveyHarveyJones

But i have no wifi to update???? So wtf is it updating for?

Blackkcalb

Get this KB fix for your Win7 machine, pay attn 64bit/32bit. Your updates will improve greatly. https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/02/checking-for-updates-slow-on-windows-7-here-is-the-fix/

glugglug

It's not the check for updates that is slow. It's applying the update itself. On win7 it mostly sleeps during that process.

Blackkcalb

Well it fixed both for me, checking and updating. I went from 2 hours to 2 minutes on two ,different machines with Win7 OS. Makes little diff to me if anyone else cares to try it. Your win7 machine sleeps during update? hello

Jabiluka

My last update was October 2015 and my computer runs just fine.

HarveyHarveyJones

My fucking laptop updates even when I'm away from all wifi. What is my computer actually doing? it's forced every time. I use windows 10.

B3bomber

Your computer? Looks a lot like Microsoft's computer from what you describe.