Another MASSIVE Win 10 update

50Twuncle

MS has just released another HUGE (332Mb) Win 10 update to fix a previous update that caused freezing !!
It should be available on Windows update or ..
http://www.windowslatest.com/2016/09/01/direct-download-links-kb3176938/
This is getting silly isn't it ?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

And the eyePatch had one as well this week. It will soon go!

50Twuncle

There is a big problem with this update - it caused my laptop to freeze after installation and I needed to do a hard reboot to get round it !
So I would advise against installing it for the time being....

Double_V

Is this the anniversary update ?

50Twuncle

Double_V wrote: »

Is this the anniversary update ?

No - this is additional updates, since then - to rectify issues created by the anniversary update !!

Roland_Sausage

332MB is hardly MASSIVE/HUGE nowadays.

agarnett

Roland_Sausage wrote:

332MB is hardly MASSIVE/HUGE nowadays.

True, but how big was the W10 Anniversary Update itself? I just know that I'd somehow used about 5 or 6GB already this month by the time the Anniversary Update took over my W10 machine yesterday morning (Sunday 4.9).

I rarely use anywhere near 1GB/day normally.

How much of that 5 or 6GB would likely have been the install file for the main W10 Anniversary update?

Edit: I think I just answered my own question - the x64 iso file available for a manual upgrade looks to me like it is 4.1GB - anyone know different?

Jivesinger

50Twuncle wrote: »

MS has just released another HUGE (332Mb) Win 10 update to fix a previous update that caused freezing !!
It should be available on Windows update or ..
http://www.windowslatest.com/2016/09/01/direct-download-links-kb3176938/
This is getting silly isn't it ?

It's only 330 MB if you haven't downloaded the previous updates. It's a cumulative update with all fixes since the version was released in August; most users will have a few of these fixes already, although this one does seem a big step up since the last one.

But for comparison, for people with the 1511 version of Windows from last November, the x64 cumulative update is over 900MB if you haven't downloaded any previous updates.

Jivesinger

agarnett wrote: »

True, but how big was the W10 Anniversary Update itself? I just know that I'd somehow used about 5 or 6GB already this month by the time the Anniversary Update took over my W10 machine yesterday morning (Sunday 4.9).

I rarely use anywhere near 1GB/day normally.

How much of that 5 or 6GB would likely have been the install file for the main W10 Anniversary update?

Edit: I think I just answered my own question - the x64 iso file available for a manual upgrade looks to me like it is 4.1GB - anyone know different?

It will download as an ESD file which is more compressed than an ISO. I don't know the size but I'll bet less than 4GB.

50Twuncle

X64 ISO was 4.07Gb in file size
Which in itself is Humumgous !!

jshm2

If you use WSUS Offline update then you'll get fewer problematic updates.

It's not really the fault of Microsoft. You are supposed to read up on updates before using them.