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NVMe SSD, 8 core, 4.4GHz CPU and 16GB of 3600MHz RAM but most of time taken with my system is downloading because of relatively slow (10-20Mbps) internet. That's why (internet speed) there's great variation during updates depending on how large update is. In this case, update was small so it took a bit more than half of total time taken. With large updates, even 80-90% of time is taken with download. Updates in general are very inefficient, uses only one core and little memory no matter what system has so it has little influence.
Fast disk seems to be of most help during installation phase. When updating on a SATA SSD, it's usage hovers about 99% which puts some strain on rest of the system while with NVMe drive it's usage rarely goes over 10%.
Got mine updated an hour ago, took 10 minutes as well:
Date: 14/07/2021 11:01:27
Log Name: Setup
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Servicing
Date: 14/07/2021 11:01:27
Event ID: 1
Task Category: (1)
Level: Information
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: [REDACTED]
Description:
Initiating changes for package KB5004237. Current state is Absent. Target state is Installed.
And before restart:
Log Name: Setup
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Servicing
Date: 14/07/2021 11:08:59
Event ID: 4
Task Category: (1)
Level: Information
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: [REDACTED]
Description:
A reboot is necessary before package KB5004237 can be changed to the Installed state.
And once restart took place (I might not have reacted immediately to the 'Restart to complete installation' notification
Log Name: Setup
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Servicing
Date: 14/07/2021 11:11:15
Event ID: 2
Task Category: (1)
Level: Information
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: [REDACTED]
Description:
Package KB5004237 was successfully changed to the Installed state.
So 10 minutes all in all for this piece alone.
All good so far by the way...
First try clearly stalled at 74%. Not really knowing what to do, I restarted the computer, which resulted in the screen that Windows was being prepared, which also was clearly stalled.
Ignoring the warning to not turn off the computer, I did that; took a while holding down the switch, but eventually it was turned off. Restart was quite normal, so I went to Windows Update which immediately began to install the previously downloaded up date. This went very quickly, as did the final step of installing.
Did MS just go "FULL RETARD" again with this CU ?
Seriously it downloaded
- Windows Software Removal
- NET Framework
- the CU
Sofware Removal and NET Framework took 2 min.
CU took 30 min.
And this is on a freakin M.2 - 2TB SSD... i switched from HDD to M.2 LITERALLY to not have to deal with this crap every CU... i swear man... MS are getting more and more retarded by the day.