A solution to the painfully slow upgrade to 10049.


  1. Posts : 96
    Windows 10 Pro v1703 64-bit
       #1

    Found a workaround to the painfully slow upgrade to 10049.


    Many people, including myself, have been facing a problem when upgrading to the latest Windows 10 build, 10049.

    There is a bug in which the install program downloads all available language packs when it is running.

    Upon reboot, on the "circle with percentage" screen, the OS installs all the downloaded language packs, resulting in a very very very long upgrade process which can take 20+ hours in some cases.

    I have read this in a forum comment (cannot remember what forum exactly)
    Thank you comment poster anyway.

    And decided to test.
    It Works!!!!


    Upgrade from build 9926 directly to 10049.
    For some reason, in this scenario, the setup program does not try to download the unnecessary language packs, and runs as normal.

    The total install time in this case shrinks to about 3 hours or less.

    I know this doesn't sound very practical, but is the only workaround i found.

    Mine took less than one hour!

    Hope this helps.
    Last edited by WinInsiderBeta; 18 Nov 2015 at 20:36.
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  2. Posts : 258
    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
       #2

    A solution to the painfully slow upgrade to 10049.


    Let's hope they fix it before 10051 or whatever the next one will be.
    Larry


    WinInsiderBeta said:
    Many people, including myself, have been facing a problem when upgrading to the latest Windows 10 build, 10049.

    There is a bug in which the install program downloads all available language packs when it is running.

    Upon reboot, on the "circle with percentage" screen, the OS installs all the downloaded language packs, resulting in a very very very long upgrade process which can take 20+ hours in some cases.

    I have read this in a forum comment (cannot remember what forum exactly)
    Thank you comment poster anyway.

    And decided to test.
    It Works!!!!


    Upgrade from build 9926 directly to 10049.
    For some reason, in this scenario, the setup program does not try to download the unnecessary language packs, and runs as normal.

    The total install time in this case shrinks to about 3 hours or less.

    I know this doesn't sound very practical, but is the only solution i found.

    Mine took less than onde hour!

    Hope this helps.
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  3. whs
    Posts : 1,935
    Windows 7
       #3

    Nice post - but what IS the solution ?
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  4. Posts : 459
    Windows 8&10
       #4

    The closer we are the the RTM, I will be working on upgrading directly from my Original OS instead of on a pre-upgraded build. I suppose that would be even better than upgrading from just an earlier build....
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  5. Posts : 258
    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
       #5

    whs; I would hope that they have fixed the bug in the upgrade that allowed it to upgrade all of the languages instead of just the one on the system being upgraded.
    Larry


    whs said:
    Nice post - but what IS the solution ?
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  6. Posts : 1,524
    Windows 10 Pro (32-bit) 16299.15
       #6

    Was it my post?
    Me said:
    There does seem to be a bug related to language packs with the latest builds. See here:
    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/i...=1428109839126
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  7. Posts : 162
    Windows 10
       #7

    Always amazing to me that this sort of thing somehow gets released to the public. It's like, no one bothered to test the install or maybe they just felt like having themselves a collective laugh.
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  8. whs
    Posts : 1,935
    Windows 7
       #8

    I think the solution is to wait for the iso, fix it with Ntlite and make a fresh install. What keeps us from that is our curiosity and the investment in the current builds.
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  9. Posts : 1,524
    Windows 10 Pro (32-bit) 16299.15
       #9

    musiclover7 said:
    Always amazing to me that this sort of thing somehow gets released to the public. It's like, no one bothered to test the install or maybe they just felt like having themselves a collective laugh.
    It's not a release to the public.

    It's a preview which is made available on the basis you accept there are bugs.

    More than that, build 10049 is only available to 'fast' ring users who have accepted that there are even more bugs.
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