Last night i went to shut down and got the blue screen w/ the swirly dots saying "don't switch off, preparing windows" stuff. i waited. i ran the bath. waitied a bit more. had a bath. mid-way drying my hair it appears to have finished and shut down. it seems a regular thing that W10 has an inordinately long time to prep/install updates compared to W7, or am i just having issues?
It depends how fast is your computer, bur regular maintenance should speed it up.
You can download WC.bat and run it as admin, it will perform a system cleanup.
There are tool to do some cleanup like CCleaner or Wise Disk Cleaner.
Exactly what I've been seeing and I believe many others here too. It's been starting to take longer on my 12yr old Dell as well as lighting fast new Surface Pro 4. Hell, the Pro 4 even ran really hot when it appeared to have gotten stuck on the last cumulative update, leading me to shut it down out of fear it would melt the core!! jk jk... but it did get really really warm
On the bright side, your update still went through, AND faster than the time you needed in the bathroom. What's that telling ya huh? lol
i was wondering if it as downloading as a zip-type thing then taking ages to unpack it or whatever, i dunno. odd thing is, i went to "installed updates" to check the install and size, and the last thing on the list was from a week ago, so i've no idea what it did the other night :-/
All our PCs got some sort of update recently , they all sat there saying 'don't turn off , preparing to update' , no % as there normally was , no info either, they all took a long time...well , longer than normal to shut down...
if i'm reading the other forums here right, i think it was another 700+Mb effort, which maybe would explain the inordinate amount of time taken to unpack/perpare/whatever. still odd that it does all that but doesn't list it in the installs.
really miss W7's approach, where you'd get a pop-up then be able to look/tick things available.
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