Thursday, July 20th 2017
Microsoft Decreasing Windows 10 Updates Downtime in Fall Creators Update
If you're a standard Windows user, you probably find Windows updates something of a pain - especially when they force you to reboot your PC after they're installed. But imagine you own a business that constantly has its machines up and running, but also requires the latest security upgrades; each minute of downtime for installing such updates is lost revenue. Because of that issue, which companies brought to Microsoft's attention over the years, the company is streamlining its update process, decreasing the amount of update steps that need to be taken offline (which means less time waiting for the machines to become available to use following an update.)Usually, in updating your Windows system, there are two phases: an "online" phase, in which your PC automatically checks for new updates and actively downloads required system files while allowing you to keep using the computer for various tasks. The second "offline" phase is where the bulk of the work occurs during the update process, and doesn't allow the user to make use of the machine while this process is taking place (read reboot update sequences, for instance.) With Microsoft's latest streamlining process, two steps that previously took place during the "offline" phase will migrate to the online phase. Namely, 1) user content (apps/settings/configurations) back-up and the laying down of new OS files (Windows Image [WIM] process.)
Microsoft's Jason Howard, in a blog post for the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, said that "By moving the old offline portions of the upgrade process to the online phase, upgrades will appear to take longer if you're watching or timing the progress. We didn't want to sacrifice usability for offline time so the upgrade processes are run at a lower priority to provide for best performance."
Sources:
Microsoft Feedback Hub, Via HotHardware
Microsoft's Jason Howard, in a blog post for the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, said that "By moving the old offline portions of the upgrade process to the online phase, upgrades will appear to take longer if you're watching or timing the progress. We didn't want to sacrifice usability for offline time so the upgrade processes are run at a lower priority to provide for best performance."
33 Comments on Microsoft Decreasing Windows 10 Updates Downtime in Fall Creators Update
I also don't get your questions...
No, cortana, no updates, nothing, metro apps totally deleted, old win7 calculator, modded Win7 GUI aero glass theme, Win7 icons back, works perfectly.
Confirmed with wireshark there's not a single phone-home connection made by the OS or any of it's components, piece of cake.
But the show desktop button is very thin, that's a big pain in the ass I haven't been able to tweak yet, but I'm just getting started.
And obviously I don't use this Win10 install as a main OS, I put it on some old HDD totally sepearate, and only for gaming, it's still useless for practical work and high speed multitasking, that's how it's done, you people are really losing so much nerves and effort trying to follow the "rules" of a bunch of people who run a random corporate american company, you never saw or met.
They love to use this "streamline" buzzword.
Updating is so risky and broken on Win10, I didn't try but I kept reading the reports and news, even if it may not be problematic in the end, this feature it self is added complexity and can have it's own bugs.