My neighbor has bought a used laptop from a company, which overtake such devices and then resell. Now he has downloaded the Firefox browser and a free writer program, and Windows10 Home has the latest updates on it. What is striking is that the downloading and installing the programs takes forever. The last update from Microsoft to the Windows 10 version 1903 took as much as 4 hours. Is the calculator so weak on the chest or can it have another cause? Here's the data I could find out: Intel Core i5-2520M, CPU 2.5 GHz, RAM 4.00GB, x64 based processor, Windows 10 Home Version 1903
My last Windows update took more than four hours. With i7 and SSD hard drive.
In fact, they need so long, the download depends on the line and of course the limitation of the download server. If the only 500kbyte / s releases, brings also a 400mbit connection nothing.
The cause could be a lame hard drive and / or the somewhat low RAM capacity.
I also needed about 8 hours to update Win 7Pro x64. Good, my WLan officially synonymous only 128 kbps ago.
Thanks to all the answerers, so the man does not need to worry about anything, everything seems to be running normally, next time he can go for a walk with the dog.
One might think Windows charges itself completely new with every update…
For comparison…
The notebook I'm writing for you is 15 years old. (4GB Ram)
Nothing is charging and running slowly.
I only know something like this from defective hard disks.
The read / write heads are no longer properly positioned.
(Do you hear a clack, what comes with repositioning.)
Of course, the hard drive should always have enough free space on C:. But then win warns too.
It will not be the rest.
Download is fast, because everything is extremely compressed. The update folder was after a short time with me about 13gbyte in size. The hours after that were not the download, but the initialization and installation.
Even worse…
