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Old March 23rd 17, 05:09 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul[_32_]
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Default Win 10 giga-update: KB 4013429 vs KB 4015438 vs 4016635

Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 22/03/2017 10:28 PM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Could I just download and install KB 4015438, skipping 4013429?

Their 64-bit download are of file sizes over 1 GBytes!!!


OH well, here comes KB4016635!!!


You should be relying on Windows to do these,
not fooling around with catalog.update.microsoft.com .

Using direct downloads is only to cover failure cases.

The "Delta Updater" is a technology that only downloads
the difference between the existing file set, and the
new file set. The end result should be, the three updates
should not need a total of 3GB of downloads. Maybe
1-1.5GB or so. Use the byte counter in your router
to keep track.

Part of the reason for doing some of this work now,
is so that when the Delta Updater brings in the
Creator OS version, the delta will be smaller, and
the CDN will not be overloaded.

The Delta Update does not appear to be particularly
granular. The chunk size it uses still seems to be
pretty large. But the new scheme was invented to save
bytes on the Microsoft end, at the expense of increasing
the overall time to complete the updates. I could download
an entire DVD-sized OS image, in about half the time to
do a Delta Update. It's slow.

Paul
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