WIN 10 again!

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

that was a BIG ooopps yes SSD is hat was meant.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Really sad I am. Whilst having a break from domestic goddess duties I booted and timed Ubuntu and Windows, which I have dual-boot on the same machine.

• Linux to working GUI – 20 seconds
• Windows to working GUI – 31 seconds

What Windows did next is more annoying, or perhaps Siri was smart enough to anticipate my desire to see an embarrassment! Windows took 12 minutes to download several updates (at 1Mb/s) and then slowly started applying them. When I came back 46 minutes later, it was still chugging away. Shortly after it stopped and I was offered the Retry Button. That failed too. Then I had to force a shutdown over a running app, oh dear.

Nothing broke and I expect the update will sort itself out later but still.

Within reason I don't really care how long it takes my OS to boot. Me doing all these measurements with a stopwatch is coincidental…

Dave

 

 

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 12/04/2018 19:06:38

[FarmboyParticipant @farmboy]

It took some of us a long time to realise that, unlike many hobby machine tools, the PC is designed with a 100% duty cycle, i.e. they are meant to be permanently powered up. Mine wakes from sleep mode every night around 4am and updates some of its parts. The only way to discover this is by viewing the system log since it does not list these mini-updates.

If it is powered off at night these updates take place after you switch on . . . which may be fine if you are on "superfast" broadband, but can involve a very long tea-break if you are on a slow rural 'phone line as they hog ALL the bandwidth

Many of the bigger updates involve a long-winded reboot but if you have Win10 Pro you are allowed some leeway to choose when to do this.

Mike.

All computers are a pain, but sadly they are no longer optional unless you are a hermit who does not need to contact anyone in the outside world for business or social purposes . . .

Edited By Farmboy on 12/04/2018 23:00:09

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