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  1. 11-03-2021, 07:20 AM #181
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    Well I just downloaded Windows 11 for free. It was offered to me on my Windows 10 download screen so I thought I would give it a try.
    All went well and it downloaded and installed very fast on one of my laptops and dun so without a hitch. It works very well but I would suggest you
    back up files on other machines because you might loose them.

    Overall it is extremely fast, a lot faster than Windows 10. If you use Windows 10 a lot you might find some difficulty with W 11. It will take some
    effort to adjust. So far I have been using W-11 for a day and found no problems but again it's a little difficult to adjust from W 10. I have some other PCs at home,
    all working W-10. I will save updates on these until I feel safe to upgrade all my PCs to W-11 in case I run into any snags.
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  2. 11-11-2021, 05:18 AM #182
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    Today's Win 10 patches are strange. On two computers, it went easily and fast. On two others, it took 40 minutes to complete the reboot.

    Edit to add: apparently it has to do with devices connected via USB. The two laptops that took 40 minutes each have an external USB3 HD.
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  3. 12-15-2021, 07:57 AM #183
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    Similar phenomenon this month: a 10 year old Lenovo laptop installed and rebooted in 5 minutes. A brand new Acer laptop took an hour...
    And not USB related: the Acer had nothing connected to it.

    Edit to add: the culprit is Malwarebytes. Before pressing the restart button, quit malwarebytes! (Right-click icon in system tray).
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    Update to win 10 21H2 went fast and without a glitch on all computers. Took less than 5 minutes, each.
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    Today's patches took anywhere between 20 to 45 minutes, depending on how old the PC and its processor are.
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    Today's patches: 3 PCs updated without a problem, though one of them installed in 2 batches, meaning it had to be rebooted twice.
    A fourth PC failed to install the update, rolled back, but is giving errors now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Garuda View Post
    Today's patches: 3 PCs updated without a problem, though one of them installed in 2 batches, meaning it had to be rebooted twice.
    A fourth PC failed to install the update, rolled back, but is giving errors now.
    Correction: they all ended up rebooting twice.
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    Today's patches are an odd beast. On two computers, an old and a new laptop, it took minutes to install and update. On two others, a PC and a 2-year-old laptop, it took 1 hour and 40 minutes!

    Edit to add: and all of them subsequently installed another patch with another reboot.

    So, 2 reboots required
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  9. 11-09-2022, 06:37 AM #189
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    Update to win 10 22h2 took hours on one machine, but I assume it's because the motherboard updated the Bios and installed additional software.
    (Never had a Bios update happening by itself before, but apparently with ASUS motherboards, it happens).

    On another one, it took about 40 minutes.
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    Today's patches took about an hour on each of the 3 computers I installed it on thus far.

    It may be wise to wait a few days...
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