Installing Updates Taking Hours

ratboy181

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Like 5 hours ago I click "shut down" on my computer and it's still doing it, it's been on 58 of 76 for the past hour. What the ****?
 

Darren

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Yeah. When you first install Windows, sometimes it even takes 2-3 hours just to check for updates.
Way more than that, I've had to wait 24-48 hours on a lot of machines. Win7 updating is broken up until their February patch where they fixed it. I have to manually force updates and once the server starts pulling them down it dumps like 200 on you from a fresh install. Kinda annoying but once they start it's fine. Win10 is much better about it.
 

voyagerfan99

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Way more than that, I've had to wait 24-48 hours on a lot of machines. Win7 updating is broken up until their February patch where they fixed it. I have to manually force updates and once the server starts pulling them down it dumps like 200 on you from a fresh install. Kinda annoying but once they start it's fine. Win10 is much better about it.
Just gotta bring the major components up to speed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/4tx4s9/windows_7_slowstuck_checking_for_updates_fix_as/

The secret to not having to do this though is to just image a sysprep'd copy of Windows 7 on your desired machine. That way it's one and done. Then just update the image once a month after Patch Tuesday.
 

Darren

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Just gotta bring the major components up to speed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/4tx4s9/windows_7_slowstuck_checking_for_updates_fix_as/

The secret to not having to do this though is to just image a sysprep'd copy of Windows 7 on your desired machine. That way it's one and done. Then just update the image once a month after Patch Tuesday.
WSUS works well enough to get them rolling and for our volume that's enough. Ideally I'd have an AIO installer with the updates rolled into the iso but my boss doesn't want to hassle with it so I don't.
 

voyagerfan99

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Like I said, sysprep and image. You can use WinPE and ImageX to deploy, and even create a batch file of the commands for each version you want to deploy.

Once imaged you just need to install drivers ;)
 

Darren

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Like I said, sysprep and image. You can use WinPE and ImageX to deploy, and even create a batch file of the commands for each version you want to deploy.

Once imaged you just need to install drivers ;)
You underestimate how low budget/volume we are. We clone images for laptops we have/sell a lot of but a some of what we sell and all of our service department just relies on me manually pushing WSUSOffline to initiate updates. I know we could streamline our process but the effort to actually do that isn't practical for the volume we push. We only ever have at maximum 2 technicians at work at once, usually just 1. I'll have some days where I see 4 customers total in a 6 hour shift and sales of machines is usually 5 per day at most. It's not a large shop by any means and the stuff you propose isn't necessary or practical for us. Also I am the lead tech and manager of sorts below my boss, who is the owner. We have two stores and 6 employees in total including him. We don't need your fancy shmancy deployment. :D

I do appreciate the input, just it's not something we need. :) Not trying to derail too far either.
 
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