Another constipated Win 10 laptop..

chunter

Getting boring now.
Another windows 10 laptop arriving in, stuck in what seems to be an infinite loop trying to install some infernal update.
The Microsoft Windows 10 update system is a remarkably incompetent piece of work, even by Microsoft's recent standards.

And the sheer randomness of these updates.

Genuinely, there must be many, many working hours lost by Windows 10 users.

were

You have enough free space?

Start - type in Search box -> COMMAND find at top Right Click on it - RUN AS ADMIN

net stop wuauserv

Then in Start - Computer or Windows Explorer go to "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download"
and DELETE the contents.

Then go back to Command prompt

net start wuauserv
The upgrade should eventually go ahead.


This could be worth a look?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/971058/how-do-i-reset-windows-update-components

[Deleted User]

chunter wrote: »

Getting boring now.
Another windows 10 laptop arriving in, stuck in what seems to be an infinite loop trying to install some infernal update.
The Microsoft Windows 10 update system is a remarkably incompetent piece of work, even by Microsoft's recent standards.

And the sheer randomness of these updates.

Genuinely, there must be many, many working hours lost by Windows 10 users.

been on the Preview since the beginning and now on the Skip Ahead phase on my daily laptop and not experienced any major problems

I_have_spoken

I've said it before, replace with Linux Mint and join the kewl kids!

DoaM

I_have_spoken wrote: »

It's reformed mystery meat time people.

onomatopoeia99

chunter wrote: »

Another windows 10 laptop arriving in

Are you running a computer repair shop?

I've been using Windows 10 since release and have it on three machines at home, my desktop / development machine at work and on multiple VMs across two ESXi servers and as yet no update problems.

grumpycrab

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Are you running a computer repair shop?

I've been using Windows 10 since release and have it on three machines at home, my desktop / development machine at work and on multiple VMs across two ESXi servers and as yet no update problems.

On average how many minutes a day is each of these W10 instances running?

onomatopoeia99

grumpycrab wrote: »

On average how many minutes a day is each of these W10 instances running?

Not sure why this is relevant, but here you are:

Office desktop / dev machine : 9h / day, Mon-Fri
office VM no 1 : 24/7
office VM no 2 : only started when needed

Home main / gaming desktop :6-7h, more at weekends
Home dev machine : varies a lot
Home laptop : not much, only when out and about and occasional connections to the home network for transfering data
Home VM : rarely

Does that help?

grumpycrab

In my experience Windows10 likes being left on; I see a number of people checking their email then closing the lid or switching off; for 5 mins a day; leaving on a night a week is a good idea.

interstellaflyer

grumpycrab wrote: »

In my experience Windows10 likes being left on; I see a number of people checking their email then closing the lid or switching off; for 5 mins a day; leaving on a night a week is a good idea.

Mines on most of the time and W10 is still rubbish, I bought my laptop a couple of months before W10 was launched and it worked perfectly well until I unfortunately updated to W10, the machine has been absolute crap since.

GunJack

my thanks on the above post is partly in agreement with the content, and partly for the poster's signature - couldn't agree more