Windows Update Question

[xWhiplash]

Yesterday I decided to remove Windows 8.1 from my retina Macbook Pro and install Windows 7 instead.  However, when I started applying windows updates, it was extremely slow during the "Applying update operation" part.

 

I am referring to when it restarts and shows the Windows logo and under it says "Applying update operation X of Y (/Registry/...)"  It had 5762 operations total, but it took an extremely long time even with the SSD that came with the rMBP.  Is this something to worry about?  It took about 20 minutes for this to finish.

[Dashel]

That sounds typical to me.  There is more to the story than just IO.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

If you are reinstalling Windows 7 from the original media (or ISO) it will have to install several year's worth of patches, so this does sound like correct behavior, as Dashel noted. I'm seeing the same thing doing a clean install of Windows 8[.0] on a rather slow (netbook-grade) machine right now. Even with all the disk I/O that goes on during hotfix patching, some operations are CPU-bound, as well.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

[+Warwagon MVC]

When installing Windows 7 I recommend doing the following to cut back on the amount of updates you have to install

 

After getting into Windows 7 and Activating it start off by installing Internet Explorer 11 first. Then once that's done restart and install the Dotnet framework 4.5.2 After that's done now check for Windows updates.

 

There will still be 150+ Updates, but the amount of times you'll have to keep checking will be significantly lower when installing those 2 updates first.