The best is when this starts on battery power on an old machine. It’s always a race to see who wins.
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Time to upgrade to a faster NVME (and possibly a better CPU too). Windows updates install so fast on a modern system that they don’t even bother me anymore.
The solution here isn’t to upgrade your PC for Microsoft’s sake. The solution is to use an OS that actually respects you and your time. Use Linux, or FreeBSD, or even macOS. Alternatively install Gentoo and spend even more time updating, but with spectacular performance and customizability when you’re not updating.
The original Azure progress bar was Microsoft’s crowning masterpiece of progress bars. It would very slowly fill up, and then wrap around and start to fill up again. To be fair, all of the animations in that early KnockoutJs version of the Azure portal were just incredible to watch, and someone must have put a lot more effort into them than they did adding features.
While we’re on this topic, why does “update and shutdown” reboot the PC after updating? Just had this the other day. Was in my bed when I heard the PC running and when I got up to check, lo and behold, the login screen…
I thought that it restarted the pc, finished its whatever and then shut it down.
(Disclaimer: I don’t really use windows, so I’m not super familiar with its latest shenanigans)
This is what is supposed to happen with that option, in reality there is a very good chance that it just doesn’t shut itself off afterward. Back when I used the OS I would have it set to auto update and since I shut my computer off nightly I didn’t have a problem with it, but I found that it had a fairly good chance that if it updated when I shut it down my computer would still be running when I woke up in the morning. My work around that I put for it is I put a scheduled shutdown in task scheduler for early in the morning when I knew I was never up so if the system had restarted but failed to power itself back off again it would turn itself off.
