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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 29 Jun 2011 14:31 : \____
> Homer wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
>>
>>> It always amazes me how Debian can give me a couple hundred megabytes of
>>> updates in 5 or 10 minutes, while Windows Update struggles and trundles
>>> for 20 minutes to check for updates (from a *local* server), install them,
>>> and, sometimes, flag a reboot.
>>
>> Count yourself lucky you're not this guy, whose "update" lasted at least
>> two /days/:
>>
>> [quote]
>> I am sitting here viewing this same issue after 48 hours the updates are
>> still not installed! This has nothing to do with anyone's computer with
>> respect to glitches! Windows Update is including language packs and this
>> is what is taking an extreme amount of time! Beyond that after the
>> majority of the Language Packs have installed Windows 7 seems go though
>> a process. Right now I am on update 83 of 114! I know the machine is not
>> stuck in an infinite loop because has moved from update 72! The process
>> in which this works causes the end user to experience days of
>> installation.
>>
>> Currently I am on a AMD Dual Core System/Asus Board with 4 Gigs of Ram.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> reply 1:
>> To continue this if you ask me to run Windows 7 Ultimate Edition it
>> takes either an hexacore or an octacore to be fast. There is no way to
>> run this OS on a dual core without stripping it down to the bear
>> minimum!
>>
>> reply 2:
>> Soon Dual Core based machines will have to use Windows 7 Starter Edition
>> which is on netbooks to be be responsive (Smiles)
>> [/quote]
>>
>> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_update/windows-7-ultimate-edition-takes-forever-to-load/48c60951-047c-e011-9b4b-68b599b31bf5
>>
>> Two /days/?
>>
>> TWO *DAYS*?!?!?
>>
>> Holy chronological impediment, Batman!
>>
>> I could /compile/ an entire /distro/ in less time.
>>
>> Oh, and I just noticed... the site actually has a real, live, genuine
>> "Me Too" button.
>>
>> LOL!
>
> Yeah, we have an old virtual machine that hadn't been exposed to the
> Internet in, maybe, 3 months, and it took about 2 *days* to do the updates.
>
> Incredible slopware.
The Register has some articles (harking back to Vista days) where Windows takes
days to transfer files.
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