Download Problems

[stickmaker]

 

Win10 is downloading an enormous update. So enormous that after running most of yesterday it was literally just over 50% when I went to bed last night. Unfortunately, it was only at 56% when I woke the computer this morning!

 

Who designs a large download to pause when the screensaver comes on?!

 

Comments

[kengr]

Probably the same people who programmed the updater for Adobe acrobat. Years ago I discovered that the updater chewed huge amounts of CPU time *and* took a day or two to download an update.

How they managed *that* combo of properties I have no idea.

That led to my dropping Acrobat and switching to Foxit. So I have no idea if they ever fixed that atrocity.

BTW, check the power settings in Control Panel. You might have things set so that network connections get dropped while the system is "idle".

That'd produce exactly the symptoms you report without it being the fault of the updaters. Instead it'd be the fault of the default power settings.

[stickmaker]

The Power Saver option is unchecked. That's the only appropriate thing I could find under System and Security or Network and Internet.

I will note that in the four hours since waking the computer this morning, the update has reached 80%.

Also note that I am running this on an iMac via Parallels. However, I have successfully downloaded both Mac and Windows updates overnight before. (Though not in Win10.)

[kengr]

Well in Win 7, it's Control Panel -> Power Options -> Edit Plan Settings

And there's a "put the computer to sleep" pull down list. Which lists times ranging from 1 minute to Never.

I have never checked as I've had that setting mess with background stuff that takes hours in the past.

[stickmaker]

Uh... The download progress counter just went from 85% to 1%. I really hope that's a good thing.

[kengr]

With luck, that's now the *installation* progress counter.