Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 'to prevent confusion'

Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by freeone3000 on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:37PM (#23656741)

Big updates are secretly reinstalls of windows, where everything is dropped back in. Big, slow hard drives make this take longer.

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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by beagle3 on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:13PM (#23657119)

A complete reinstall of a modern Ubuntu on a spinning HDD takes less than 30 minutes in my experience (often less than 15).

Windows installs and reinstalls take hours more often than not -- just logging in for the first time on an up-to-date Win10 laptop recently took 10 minutes to "personalize" it for me ... and this was on an SSD. I used to have curiosity about how they made it so bad, but these days I've placed anything windows under a SEP field.

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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by maccard on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:01PM (#23657562)

My last windows install was about 30 minutes from boot to actually on desktop (very frustratingly interactive though, blocking the last 10 minutes behind that personalizing dialog)

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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by kl4m on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:21PM (#23658460)

And then there's the updates

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Re:Microsoft removes manual deferrals from Windows Update 't... by ToFab123 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @06:03AM (#23660753)

Not really, if you download a fresh installation media from Microsoft

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