On 17/03/2018 16:20, Carlos E.R. wrote:
[] It took me 3 full days this week to upgrade my Windows partition. Gave
some error code number. Googling it said that perhaps the disk was full
(doesn't the process know if it is?), perhaps a conflict with the
antivirus (doesn't it know), perhaps a conflict with some other thing
(doesn't it know which?).

Advice varied, but most hits (at official Microsoft site) said to go for
a clean boot (which is not a single click), then to run some update
problems wizard. The wizard said that there was a corruption with the
update database that could not be repaired.

It even took hours to download the upgrades with a 300 Mb/s pipe!

After several runs of wizard and updates it worked.

Then it run several more updates and several reboots.

Nightmare.


In comparison, my Linux upgrades (same machine) run smooth, and when
they fail I get to know the exact reason.
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I'm sorry to hear that. I'd recommend that you apply updates as soon as
possible, rather than leaving them to a major update.

For comparison, a full Windows Upgrade (which I do once or twice a week
as new "Insider" versions come out) typically take less than three hours
on a nine-year-old dual core laptop with just 2 GB memory. That's with
a 117 GB SSD with 70 GB free.

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Cheers,
David
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