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It took about 7 - 8 minutes from clicking restart to when my machine was ready for me to log in.

/me likey

John Pombrio said:

Remember how long it took to do Win7 updates or GADS, a clean install? This is sheer heaven.

XP was more of a horror with all those dependent updates to updates that were dependent on something else. And the .net nightmare!

f14tomcat said:

XP was more of a horror with all those dependent updates to updates that were dependent on something else. And the .net nightmare!

I can vividly remember seeing 100+ updates on Win 7 THEN would pop up the service pack and then MORE updates. And if any of these updates failed, you were hosed.

John Pombrio said:

I can vividly remember seeing 100+ updates on Win 7 THEN would pop up the service pack and then MORE updates. And if any of these updates failed, you were hosed.

Been a long time, but I think the advice back then was to do chunks of updates at a time. That's when we could actually choose which ones with a simple click.

John Pombrio said:

Remember how long it took to do Win7 updates or GADS, a clean install? This is sheer heaven.

Well, a good bit of your speed is now relegated to your download speed. Mine still took far longer to DL than it should have - I have a 330Mbps pipe (that routinely shows well above 360) meaning I should be able to sustain, a tthe bare minimum, 25 MB/s - which, for 5 GB worth of files, means it should take around 200 seconds. Let's say for the sake of argument that we double that - 400 seconds to download (6 minutes and change). then it still takes a good while performing the initial installing step - far too long, IMO.

f14tomcat said:

XP was more of a horror with all those dependent updates to updates that were dependent on something else. And the .net nightmare!

XP was murder. Plus the need to routinely disable AV software....

John Pombrio said:

I can vividly remember seeing 100+ updates on Win 7 THEN would pop up the service pack and then MORE updates. And if any of these updates failed, you were hosed.

I always installed the SP first before attempting to even connect to Windows Update. Made life a heck of a lot easier.

f14tomcat said:

Been a long time, but I think the advice back then was to do chunks of updates at a time. That's when we could actually choose which ones with a simple click.

I did SP first (with XP, I just installed SP2 over clean XP install until I finally built an XP install disc with SP2 integrated, and with Win7, I just downloaded the updated 7 install disc with SP1 integrated when I still had my TechNet account active).

Haven't been offered it yet on the East Coast. Drats!

Haven't been offered it yet on the East Coast. Drats! Got the Defender definitions only

Uh, I live in GA - I'm as east coast as you can get - and I am already on it.

martyfelker said:

Haven't been offered it yet on the East Coast. Drats! Got the Defender definitions only

johngalt said:

Uh, I live in GA - I'm as east coast as you can get - and I am already on it.

Me, too, Marty. Maryland is practically in the Atlantic Ocean! I got it around 1:15. Rural VA should have it. Then, there's always plan "B".......