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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs
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this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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No they aren’t.
Feature updates take the same amount of time as monthly updates. It’s been like this for years.
Recently spent almost four hours waiting for Windows Update on a brand-new PC. It wasn’t even apparent how long it would take, just kept grinding, rebooting, and grinding again.
For a three-decade OS that many bright programmers have worked on, Windows update sucks royally.
I think you may have misread my comment