Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
Keith Nuttle wrote:
This is the worst update yet that MS has put out.

My small tablet is stuck with over 10GB of storage space locked up
in the 1803 update that will not install.Â* This was expected but
not appreciated as it always has problems updating.Â* Since I
decided to wait, and am just know updating I suspect it is
experiencing the same problem with KB41037211 as my laptop.

My laptop CPU i7, 8GB ram, 1TB on the disk installed the main
update, with minimal problems, but took four restarts to get
KB41037211 installed, It is running very slow.Â* It would go through
the update restart and it would still show there was an update to
install.Â* After trying last night and KB41037211 failing to
install, I restarted several more times this morning and it finally
installed.

Some time to day I will have to try to update my desktop, it only
has a CPU i5, 8GB of memory and a 2TB of disk storage.

I pity the poor IT specialist in a large company if they are
experiencing the same thing.Â* However thanks to MS they have job
security.

What am I getting for all of the expenditure of time?Â* 3D paint,
Virtual reality, and a couple of other "IMPROVEMENTS" which I never
use. However I am "real" excited about the change in the left panel
of the Settings screen.



I downloaded an iso of the 1803 update, and it ran like butter on
all desktops. I have yet to try it on my tablet. I probably won't,
because I recall that 1709 failed too, and it wouldn't use the 1TB
of free space on a portable HD I plugged in.

Your description of your desktop with "only" should cause no
worries. At least not if you use an iso for the job. That worked
here on a desktop with smaller figures than your "only".

Ed

On the road to success with the tablet!
I tried the DVD, but got told that it was the wrong OS, contact your
.....
So, I was about to google, when I noticed a new small file on my
desktop; "Windows Update Assistant".
I scanned it, clicked on it, and got informed that it's always best
to stay up to date with latest Win10, and that my machine was ready
for an update (having sufficient memory, disk space (I'd plugged a
portable HD in) and other resources.
And it's downloading; 19% so far, very slow.
I'll report back later.

Ed

Finished, after running for 5 hours, and it has installed 1709. The
Update Assistant says that updated successfully. No mention of 1803.
HD free space still ok at 12GB after disk clean of old systems.

Ed

cleanmgr.exe can remove C:\Windows.old for you.

Click the system files button, to get the second
level of Cleanmgr running. Then for the time being,
*only* select the "previous OS" files for removal
(one tick box).

There is one option at that level, that causes the
OS to start compressing files, which can take quite
a while. You don't want to trigger that one by
accident, if it wasn't your intention.

If you run the "winver" command, it'll give you
the build numbers, such as 17134 or whatever.
The previous OS was 16299.

Windows.old will be automatically deleted in 10 days
or so, and using Cleanmgr is "if you're in a hurry to
remove all possibility of reverting the OS version".

My Windows.old this time, cleanmgr said there was
about 7GB of files. Which is less than normal. I sure
hope they weren't compressing those for nothing...

Â*Â* Paul

The tablet has very limited usage; and it's been giving sufficient
competence on that for years, even with Win10 ancient.
Basically just a portable Windows, OS that supports various dictionaries
and language databases & programs; but has browser, email, games as extras.
I would gladly stick with where I'm at with it; 1709 seems surplus to
requirements.

Ed