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The joy of Windows or is it Dell?
15 June 2014 | by Last night my new Win 8.1 Dell PC decided it needed to install updates. I chose to switch off until restarting this morning. It said “Loading Windows updates. Do not switch off your computer”. Being a good boy, I obeyed and waited as it got to 81% complete …… and waited, and waited, had breakfast, went for a walk, had more breakfast and still it said 81%, please wait. In all it had now been 1 hr 40 minutes!
At this point I was about to ring up that nice Dell man in India when I decided to turn off the PC and try again. THIS time it sailed through 81% and reached 100% complete in no time. PC works fine! What the heck was going on?
4 Responses to “The joy of Windows or is it Dell?”
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Welcome in the world of windows..
That is why it is called WINDOZ. It just dozed off and took a nap. I had the same problem with WIN 7. Not sure why, but it does seem not be be a serious issue when up dating. Just never turn off the computer until it is done or you will have to do a hard power down and back up. At least it does recover….so far. It is not a bug, it is a feature.. :-))
Roger, That happens a lot. Don’t be afraid to shut down when it stalls like that it comes back up and continues from the last point. Sometimes it is because of the Internet being slow.
Roger
I was told by a ‘customer support’ guy that sometimes when many updates are being performed they assume that a previous update has been done, however if this was done in the same batch and needed a restart then it would not be recognised and the update fail. The machine should not hang, but does sometimes. I ended up updating in batches of 10 or so and all then went OK.