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Yet another Win10 upgrade
After svchost spent half an hours running the CPU at 50% Windows Update
said there were 13 important, not recommended, important updates available. Amongst them was KB3123862, which "adds capabilities to some computers that lets users easily learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10.". I do hope they end up with a class action suit against them. I'm getting fed up of spending time checking each update to see if it wants to help me upgrade. |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
On 10/02/2016 11:57, Dex wrote:
After svchost spent half an hours running the CPU at 50% Windows Update said there were 13 important, not recommended, important updates available. And after I clicked download it is just sitting there not doing anything while the CPU is running at 50% again... Oh Linux! Please come into the 21st century so I can use you without using the CLI so much, like I had to with the Amiga 500 back in the late 80s. |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
Dex wrote:
On 10/02/2016 11:57, Dex wrote: After svchost spent half an hours running the CPU at 50% Windows Update said there were 13 important, not recommended, important updates available. And after I clicked download it is just sitting there not doing anything while the CPU is running at 50% again... Oh Linux! Please come into the 21st century so I can use you without using the CLI so much, like I had to with the Amiga 500 back in the late 80s. The 50% CPU (i.e. railing of one core on a dual core processor) is caused by the very old wuauserv bug. The bug existed on WinXP too. It has all the same symptoms - only the time scale differs due to the different history in the file manifest. To reduce the time it takes for that bug to "resolve" itself, try to keep Internet Explorer patched with the most recent cumulative update. Say, for example, you don't use Internet Explorer. Then install the latest version of Internet Explorer that you can find for Windows 7, followed by installing the Cumulative Update for that version right after. In theory, you should be able to figure out and install both of those, without using Windows Update. (I used an approach like this when installing Win7 purchased copy last fall. As I needed to improve the performance of Windows Update enough, to pour in the 100+ updates after SP1.) Then, when you visit Windows Update, the interval of "wheel spinning" could be reduced to around a quarter of the previous interval. So if you had to wait 40-50 minutes for Windows Update list to appear, the time might drop to 10-15 minutes or so. This workaround is not a big improvement, but is a bandaid until next patch Tuesday comes along, and another cumulative update waiting in the wings, causes the wait time to go back to 40-50 minutes. There is a list of patches directly related to Windows Update, but the symptoms do not "constantly improve", so there's really no reason to dig up the list again. The behavior of Windows 7 wait time, is similar to WinXP, bandaided one month, broken the next. When the CPU rails on one core, there will be no disk activity, and the CPU is "compute bound" in wuauserv. One of the WU patches, reduces memory usage by the bug, but otherwise has no positive effect in terms of resolving the issue. Apparently, some people were seeing 2GB of memory used by wuauserv while it zooms off into space. Mine was never that bad, and it might have used 800MB or so, peak. HTH, Paul |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
Wolf K wrote:
On 2016-02-10 07:14, Dex wrote: [...] Oh Linux! Please come into the 21st century so I can use you without using the CLI so much, like I had to with the Amiga 500 back in the late 80s. Try Linux Mint. +1 -- John Q. Public |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
Dex wrote:
On 10/02/2016 11:57, Dex wrote: After svchost spent half an hours running the CPU at 50% Windows Update said there were 13 important, not recommended, important updates available. And after I clicked download it is just sitting there not doing anything while the CPU is running at 50% again... Oh Linux! Please come into the 21st century so I can use you without using the CLI so much, like I had to with the Amiga 500 back in the late 80s. When was the las t time you looked at Linux? http://distrowatch.com/ Stef |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:57:24 +0000, Dex wrote:
After svchost spent half an hours running the CPU at 50% Windows Update Same story he svhost.exe was running at 25% CPU for about 30 minutes. said there were 13 important, not recommended, important updates available. Amongst them was KB3123862, which "adds capabilities to some computers that lets users easily learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10.". I did not see that update. I just checked and it isn't installed. I do hope they end up with a class action suit against them. I'm getting fed up of spending time checking each update to see if it wants to help me upgrade. +1 -- s|b |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:45:03 -0500, Wolf K wrote:
On 2016-02-10 07:14, Dex wrote: [...] Oh Linux! Please come into the 21st century so I can use you without using the CLI so much, like I had to with the Amiga 500 back in the late 80s. Try Linux Mint. TAKE YOUR LINUX AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ****ING ASSHOLE! (This is a Window 7 newsgroup, so GET THE **** OUT OF HERE if you use Linux). NO ONE WANTS YOUR ****ING LINUX GARBAGE! |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
On 10/02/2016 17:00, Stef wrote:
Dex wrote: On 10/02/2016 11:57, Dex wrote: After svchost spent half an hours running the CPU at 50% Windows Update said there were 13 important, not recommended, important updates available. And after I clicked download it is just sitting there not doing anything while the CPU is running at 50% again... Oh Linux! Please come into the 21st century so I can use you without using the CLI so much, like I had to with the Amiga 500 back in the late 80s. When was the las t time you looked at Linux? MX Linux a few days ago in a Virtualbox. http://www.mepiscommunity.org/mx |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
On 10/02/2016 15:45, Wolf K wrote:
On 2016-02-10 07:14, Dex wrote: [...] Oh Linux! Please come into the 21st century so I can use you without using the CLI so much, like I had to with the Amiga 500 back in the late 80s. Try Linux Mint. I have, on and off since version 11. Still end up using the CLI too much. |
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Yet another Win10 upgrade
Dex wrote:
On 10/02/2016 15:45, Wolf K wrote: On 2016-02-10 07:14, Dex wrote: [...] Oh Linux! Please come into the 21st century so I can use you without using the CLI so much, like I had to with the Amiga 500 back in the late 80s. Try Linux Mint. I have, on and off since version 11. Still end up using the CLI too much. How else are you going to run "top" :-) That's one of my favorites. Paul |
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