Why does Windows update take up all of my internet?

rockfan13 · 11 Nov 2020

AndreTen said:

I would blame the games too

Run Treesize and it will tell you where have your empty space go. 30 GB is not that much.

Yeah. But a lot of them I don't even play anymore and came with the computer. So, I don't know what to do about those.

AndreTen · 11 Nov 2020

Uninstall them.

rockfan13 · 11 Nov 2020

AndreTen said:

Uninstall them.

I thought a lot of people said that you couldn't uninstall them. Do I uninstall them just like any other program?

Helmut · 11 Nov 2020

I am on about 14 Mbps download.
Using the settings mentioned in post #2, background downloads are set to 50% of bandwidth, and foreground 80%. That works for me.

"Do I uninstall Games just like any other program? "
Yes.

"why does my computer not have as much space on it now as it used to when I first got it? It used to have 30 gigabytes on it. And now even after deleting Windows old, I only have like half of that. "

You can be pretty sure any application you install will be twice the installed size after a few years.
Get a larger HDD. Windows needs about 20% of your HDD as free space.

I don't even consider drives of less than 1 TB.

OldNavyGuy · 11 Nov 2020

I'm on a 6 Mbps down/1Mbps up DSL line, and Windows Update runs pretty quickly.

We also don't run torrents and multiplayer games, which will eat up bandwidth.

You can also manually download and install updates using the Microsoft Update Catalog.

Run Windows Disk Cleanup on a regular basis, and you should see improvements in available disk space.

Download and run the free tool Revo Uninstaller Portable to uninstall apps you are no longer using.

Revo Uninstaller Free - Remove unwanted programs easily

RJARRRPCGP · 11 Nov 2020

Helmut said:

I am on about 14 Mbps download.

That was my real download speed at Speedtest.net, only after I changed the coding gain option in the BEC 7402TM router to "7". That was not too long before getting FTTH from the same ISP. One day in late-2011, I decided to tweak the router, because I was near the ISP and I got the best results ever, it marked the first time of getting 12 Mbps down, because the router was a PITA before, and usually gave me only 10 Mbps down at Speedtest.net, for no good reason! Then by 2013, if not before that, I regularly got 13 Mbps down and 14 Mbps down seemed to be the new norm at Speedtest.net.

I finally dumped ADSL2/+ on November 26, 2013. That was the day of the FTTH enablement!

And multiplayer games don't even really eat bandwidth, because it essentially is just small packets going back-and-forth, probably mostly using UDP.

AndreTen · 12 Nov 2020

rockfan13 said:

I thought a lot of people said that you couldn't uninstall them. Do I uninstall them just like any other program?

You'll have to tell us the names of that games. Some are almost the part of Windows as they come. But you can uninstall them.