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1. @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2016 02:51:09 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

   • Christopher M. Hobbs
   @hobbsc no matter how inefficient you may be: you're still more efficient than Windows Vista figuring out which updates to download ;-)
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   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Nov-2016 02:54:26 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Christopher M. Hobbs
     @hobbsc a have a Windows Vista box sitting here for 1 week "computing which updates to download" at 100% (celeron) cpu load. Not uncommon...
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 16:56:03 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Yuri Volkov
     @yvolk you still get updates for Vista and W7 if you don't skip updating for too long.
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 16:57:54 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Yuri Volkov
     @yvolk  Otherwise svchost.exe will run for hours-days at 100% cpu *without* network or disk activity, "meditating" what updates are needed
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 17:38:03 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Nakal
     @nakal rumour says MS's update-searching method has become a lot more "complicated" in April & the auto update client went very inefficient
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 17:40:19 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Nakal
     @nakal I recently re-installed Vista on a notebook and after SP1 & SP2 the auto update client meditated for 3 days "searching for updates"…
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 17:42:25 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Nakal
     @nakal … without any network or disk activity, but finally coming up w "there are xxx updates", so really just needed the cpu time of 3 days
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 17:44:37 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Nakal
     @nakal to be a bit more precise: there is disk and network activity within the first 10... minutes – the 3 days after are meditation, though
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 17:50:52 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • windows
     • Nakal
     • xamen
     @nakal @axmen so, either !MS is just incapable with their update method, or rather than stupidiy they're mining bitcoins on ppls computers
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 17:57:13 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Nakal
     @nakal I havent noticed crashes but some people claimed the svchost allocating 4 GB or so RAM . Not here though.
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 18:02:09 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

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     • Nakal
     @nakal  I gave up on my recent case of Vista auto update meditating for >12 days. I upgraded to Win7& got all updates completed within a day
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 18:15:54 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Nakal
     @nakal I use Vbox a lot and it rarely crashes. When it did crash it was never reproducible. From my experience you need >=1.3GB RAM for win7
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 03-Dec-2016 19:10:55 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Nakal
     @nakal regarding the update problem you can try the winfuture.de update pack.Installing their updates may work but it won't fix MS's updater
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 04-Dec-2016 15:14:12 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Nakal
     @nakal I think you can also disable Windows update in the system control ui, or stop & disable "Windows Update" in services.msc
   • @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 04-Dec-2016 19:18:28 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se

     • Nakal
     • Anders Bateva
     @andersbateva thx, I know. I have a Windows 10 testing VM, disconnected from the internet, but I hate it and do not use it. @nakal