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.