Windows 10,11, very slow download of windows updates – Windows 10 Cumulative Updates are way too slow to download and install

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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In reply to A. User’s post on December 11, Can you tell me which Windows 10 version are you on? I mean or or Keep in mind that not all the server are at the same download speed, it depends from how many device are updating from each server.

However we cannot exclude some problem with your PC, so I need the version to best help you. Windows 10 Pro version This situation if first for me. I agree. This is downright stupid. I can see a lot of people not updating as needed because people dont want to wait days just to get updated.

Windows 10 sucks. I want my windows 8. I have a Microsoft surface pro 2. Download took a few minutes Win 10 version 20H2 – KB Install took less than 15 minutes.

Same update for my HP i7 laptop – download took about 15 minutes. You see the “Give feedback” button at the “Activity Monitor”? If possible, also attach “tracert download. That’s the only way Microsoft can know there is download speed problem in your region and see if they can find some way to fix it. Say, if your PC is on GSM network and the bandwidth usage is already over the “fair use” limit, this kind of speed is completely normal, and Microsoft is not going to log that as problem.

I never understood how a company with the resources of the world at its disposal can’t do updates in a timely manner The open source community Linux can handle updates ‘quickly’ and they run on a shoestring. I have one operating system which I paid for and always have problems with it.. I have another operating system which is free and is free of problems..

It should be embarrassing at this point but Windows engineers seem oblivious to the problems in their product. Click Yes to run Command Prompt. Try performing a Windows update to see if this fixes works. If this issue persists, try running the System File Checker.

System File Checker can scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files. If Windows update takes so long to complete, it may be caused by some corruption error. In this case, running System File Checker may help you resolve this issue. Perform a Windows update to check whether this fix works or not.

If you still fail to install updates for your Windows system, try the next fix, below. If None of the fixes above works for you, you can try downloading the updates you failed to install from Microsoft Update Catalog and install them manually. For example, if you fail to install update KB, you can download that update and install it manually. On your keyboard, press the Windows Logo key and R at the same time to open the Run dialog.

Type cmd and press Enter to open Command Prompt. Type the command line systeminfo and press Enter to view your system type. Try flushing the windows update cache No joy. Unfortunately no joy. I’ve tried this on every laptop I’ve had to hand and it’s still the same afterwards.

Login or sign up to reply to this topic. Didn’t find what you were looking for? Search the forums for similar questions or check out the Windows 10 forum. PM me or a moderator to reactivate. We like to know! Thank you! You have very slow internet, any update will take some serious time. Only update one computer at a time. Linux User and Windows 10 Lover. These are intended for the benefit of sysadmins who have the joy of managing updates across a flock of computers so that they have a chance to check that none of these updates are going to break every computer in their care – simultaneously!

You lose nothing by not installing the optional pre-view as the final version will be installed on. You have my sympathy about your download performance, I thought that the c5Mbps we were getting from our last ISP was bad!

If you have the option I would consider changing my ISP but then, in the highly competitive US broadband market at least according to the various telcos , you may well not have a choice.

I am going to be away from base from Christmas Eve to the middle of January and during this time my internet access may be reduced and I may not reply to PMs as rapidly as usual, but. Wow, and I thought Australia had poor internet speeds.

If I noted my Internet speed either Up or Down drop down to 1Mbps the first thing I’d do is get on the phone to my internet provider. In fact, I’d be screaming bloody murder even if it dropped down to 10x that. If that’s par for you in the afternoons then you have serious Internet issues. Contact your ISP or sack them and connect with someone that can give you a realistic performance is my advice.

Are you connecting to your router with WiFi or cabled? If WiFi try using an ethernet cable direct from the computer to your router. As mentioned by others, your Internet speeds are almost certainly the source of all of your woes. The wild HDD activity you’re noticing could easily be put down to constant retries of downloading incomplete packets of data and effectively not getting anywhere, or Windows trying to get confirmation from the update server that a download had completed and not being able to receive a response before it times out, so then it starts all over again, ending up in a loop and looking like nothing is happening.

Your issues are highly unlikely to be a result of computer problems. Resolving your internet speed issues should be your top priority IMO. I live in the middle of New Mexico, many miles from the nearest city. I live literally in the middle of farm land and surrounded by Mesas and rivers and my internet speed is Mbps. I could not live with a 1 Mbps connection.

I’m well aware that updating two computers at once would be expected to slow things down — especially given my lousy Internet connection. The curious thing is that I’ve done it both ways, and this time when I did them together it actually went faster than on other occasions when I did them separately non-overlapping — at an Internet speed even slower than that observed on other occasions. It would also, unfortunately, put a hole in my pocketbook I cannot at the moment afford.

I do not normally install the “preview” versions of any CU, for the reasons Chris has stated. Not quite sure why I did it this time. Not losing marbles, I hope, but something not computer related did happen that shook them up a bit.

I normally put my desktop computer to sleep when I quit for the day — or it goes to sleep automatically after a certain time of inactivity.

In the middle of the night during “inactive” hours it wakes up to download and install any pending updates but not “optional” or “preview” ones and then goes back to sleep. Easy to set up, and saves a lot of bother.

 
 

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Try running Windows Update troubleshooter to see if you can resolve this issue. Here is how to do it:. In the list of search results, select Troubleshoot. Click Yes to run Windows Update troubleshooter. Perform a Windows update again to see if it still takes much longer than usual. If this issue persists, try the next fix, below. Outdated or corrupted drivers on your PC can also trigger this issue. For example, if your network driver is outdated or corrupted, it may slow down your download speed, so Windows update may take much longer than before.

To fix this issue, you need to update your drivers. There are two ways to update your drivers: manually and automatically. Update your drivers manually — You can update your drivers manually by going to official website of your PC manufacturer, and searching for the latest driver for each device on your PC. Driver Easy handles it all. Driver Easy will then scan your computer and detect any problem drivers. You get full support and a day money back guarantee.

If Windows Update components corrupted, Windows Update may not work properly. In this case, try resetting Windows Update components. The desktop took 2 hours flat for the whole process; the laptop about ten minutes longer. Still exasperatingly slow. There was nothing else going on, at least not of my doing, during all of this.

Perhaps the most exasperating feature is that the computer will sit there for half an hour or more, with HDD going continuously, but without ANY progress on the download or install percentage displays. I should add that the last time this occurred, a couple of weeks ago or so, I used Task Manager to see what all that hard disk activity was about.

The most dominant thing going on there it fluctuates from second to second, but the hard disks of both computers are going continuously during this whole process was the installer for MS Edge — which I was not using, but perhaps it needed updating? At any rate it pretty well monopolized the HDD of the desktop for most of the 3 hours plus on that occasion.

I don’t think the slow Internet is the whole problem here — the computers spend most of their time, while supposedly downloading or installing software, showing no progress at all on the percent scales — but with hard disk going full tilt.

Posted 04 September – AM. If your internet is that slow, I would not update both at the same time as they are going to be sharing the bandwidth and slowing each other down. Better to do one at a time and let it have full access to what bandwidth is available.

I notice these two have hard drive’s, if you get SSD’s for both, installing updates will be a lot faster. Your internet speed is horrible!!!! And 10 is a pig of an OS that takes forever to update even on a good machine. If I don’t reply right away it’s because I’m waiting for Windows 10 to Update.

Post on the forums instead it will increases the chances of getting help for your problem by one of us. PM me or a moderator to reactivate. We like to know! Thank you! You have very slow internet, any update will take some serious time.

Only update one computer at a time. Linux User and Windows 10 Lover. These are intended for the benefit of sysadmins who have the joy of managing updates across a flock of computers so that they have a chance to check that none of these updates are going to break every computer in their care – simultaneously!

You lose nothing by not installing the optional pre-view as the final version will be installed on. You have my sympathy about your download performance, I thought that the c5Mbps we were getting from our last ISP was bad! If you have the option I would consider changing my ISP but then, in the highly competitive US broadband market at least according to the various telcos , you may well not have a choice. I am going to be away from base from Christmas Eve to the middle of January and during this time my internet access may be reduced and I may not reply to PMs as rapidly as usual, but.

Wow, and I thought Australia had poor internet speeds. If I noted my Internet speed either Up or Down drop down to 1Mbps the first thing I’d do is get on the phone to my internet provider. In fact, I’d be screaming bloody murder even if it dropped down to 10x that. If that’s par for you in the afternoons then you have serious Internet issues.

Contact your ISP or sack them and connect with someone that can give you a realistic performance is my advice. Are you connecting to your router with WiFi or cabled?

If WiFi try using an ethernet cable direct from the computer to your router. As mentioned by others, your Internet speeds are almost certainly the source of all of your woes.

The wild HDD activity you’re noticing could easily be put down to constant retries of downloading incomplete packets of data and effectively not getting anywhere, or Windows trying to get confirmation from the update server that a download had completed and not being able to receive a response before it times out, so then it starts all over again, ending up in a loop and looking like nothing is happening.

Your issues are highly unlikely to be a result of computer problems. Resolving your internet speed issues should be your top priority IMO.

I live in the middle of New Mexico, many miles from the nearest city. I live literally in the middle of farm land and surrounded by Mesas and rivers and my internet speed is Mbps. I could not live with a 1 Mbps connection.

I’m well aware that updating two computers at once would be expected to slow things down — especially given my lousy Internet connection.

Try flushing the windows update cache No joy. Unfortunately no joy. I’ve tried this on every laptop I’ve had to hand and it’s still the same afterwards. Login or sign up to reply to this topic. Didn’t find what you were looking for? Search the forums for similar questions or check out the Windows 10 forum. Happy Holidays to everyone here, regardless of what or how y Your daily dose of tech news, in brief. What is even worse is that after it downloads it evidently it downloads it again to compare it.

This is wouldn’t comparing the hash on both sides suffice? Maybe their server is just always swamped and it can’t do any better. After all MS is very poor and can’t afford modern technology. Biden probably needs to give them a couple of trillion dollars to update their infrastructure. Several years ago I switched to Linux Mint and happy with it, but will admit that some of their updates download too slow but not as slow as MS and Linux only downloads it once, not twice.

Same problem here on Windows 10 – average download speed: Thats a joke. Same problem here. No results from troubleshooter.

Fast SSD. Manual downloads also pretty fast. To MS engineers, Installing the updates can take serveral hours, while installing the windows itself takes only 20 min. Are you actually do some secret tasks behind the scene when updating?

Or are you actually able to understand what is the root cause in your product? I believe Microsoft with many talent engineers should understand the problem, don’t you?

Users like me just want to know why it takes hours to start the computer when we just need to open a doc file for some very urgent work which should consume 5 min. In linux we can upgrade the system while still using it, isn’t it too hard to implement? As a network administrator, I run updates on over a dozen servers every month. This was also the same with Windows R2.

I agree. This is downright stupid. I can see a lot of people not updating as needed because people dont want to wait days just to get updated.