Guest George Valkov Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 I noticed that on a lot of XP computers (in my university, my friedns' ...), when I click shutdown and install updates it takes a lot of time 10 to 15 minutes. There is a lot of disk activity and the progress bar is very slow. I am curious to know why? PS: I haven't used XP for about 3 years or more. I have one license for Windows 2003 Server Enterprise on my home PC, I download and install updates.exe files manually (auto-update is disabled) and it only takes a few seconds to install all of them.
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 George Valkov wrote: > I noticed that on a lot of XP computers (in my university, my > friedns' ...), when I click shutdown and install updates it takes a > lot of time 10 to 15 minutes. There is a lot of disk activity and > the progress bar is very slow. I am curious to know why? > > PS: > I haven't used XP for about 3 years or more. I have one license for > Windows 2003 Server Enterprise on my home PC, I download and > install updates.exe files manually (auto-update is disabled) and it > only takes a few seconds to install all of them. It's INSTALLING UPDATES when you select "Install Updates and then Shutdown"... So yeah - it's going to take some time to install them... It will create disk activity as it installs them... Depending on the updates (the .NET ones are generally huge) large updates will take more time than the small updates. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Guest George Valkov Posted August 15, 2007 Posted August 15, 2007 Thank You for the answer, Shenan! It just reminded me, that I don't have neither antivirus software nor system restore, and I usually pass the /passive /norestart /overwriteoem /nobackup switches. Probably when a computer has antivirus software and system restore, and when the hot-fixes installer creates a backup of what is installed, perhaps in that situation the update task becomes really a heavy one? One backs-up and installs, the other backs-up all changes, while the third sniffs on the top of them all... Sound nice! :-) George Valkov "Shenan Stanley" : | George Valkov wrote: | > I noticed that on a lot of XP computers (in my university, my | > friedns' ...), when I click shutdown and install updates it takes a | > lot of time 10 to 15 minutes. There is a lot of disk activity and | > the progress bar is very slow. I am curious to know why? | > | > PS: | > I haven't used XP for about 3 years or more. I have one license for | > Windows 2003 Server Enterprise on my home PC, I download and | > install updates.exe files manually (auto-update is disabled) and it | > only takes a few seconds to install all of them. | | It's INSTALLING UPDATES when you select "Install Updates and then | Shutdown"... | | So yeah - it's going to take some time to install them... It will create | disk activity as it installs them... Depending on the updates (the .NET ones | are generally huge) large updates will take more time than the small | updates. | | -- | Shenan Stanley | MS-MVP | -- | How To Ask Questions The Smart Way | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html | |
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