It's time for Microsoft to fix the Windows 7 update slowdowns

It seems that shutdown updates to Windows 7 are rare to come by. They usually take a considerably long time to install, even if it's one update. I even see warm updates even less, and it's set to check automatically. I've disabled the Group Policy setting that allows 7 to notify me of upgrade updates (as 10 can't run for me ), but I still feel like they're slowing down our updates so that we'll update to 8.1 and then 10, or straight to 10 from 7.

jc836 said:

In the opinion of others this is yet another attempt by Microsoft to try to force Window 10 on us.

Ranger4 said:

One could be cynical & say they are trying to force 7 users over to 10 & so far there does not seem to be any other reason.

IMO, it won't be fixed as it is a deliberate tactic employed by MS to make W7 look bad (to force people to upgrade to W10).

Berkey said:

Again, I don't think MS would have deliberately sabotaged people's setups however, whatever the reason, people are having issues with the updating process and MS seems to care very little about as much.

That's rather generous of you. :)

Berkey said:

In fact, this little incident looks to have become a happy accident in terms of "convincing" people to upgrade to 10, as the solution, if there is one seems rather complicated fro even people like us on the boards, let a lone the average user.

There seem to have been a few "Happy Accidents" related to MS' attempts to force everyone to use W10.

Additional
I just tried to get this month's updates.
Windows Update was taking so long and using so many resources that all of my PC fans started running flat out.

I had to disable Windows Update just to calm my PC down.

Ranger4 said:

One could be cynical & say they are trying to force 7 users over to 10 & so far there does not seem to be any other reason.

As someone who is very cynical regarding Microsoft, their policies, goals and tactics, I'd say you're spot on.

OvenMaster said:

Ranger4 said:

One could be cynical & say they are trying to force 7 users over to 10 & so far there does not seem to be any other reason.

As someone who is very cynical regarding Microsoft, their policies, goals and tactics, I'd say you're spot on.

There were some updates that were said to be necessary
They were indeed 10 related I can not remember which ones though
I believe M$ finally rolled them up into kb3112343 which is a Important update ?

Man this is a real bummer. When the opportunity arises for me to do business with MS I will not forget this.

Same experience here with the W7 update, while W8.1 had no issues at all in the same network. As the matter of fact the W8.1 update was downloading at 60Mb/s, while W7's just did nothing for hours...

It's somewhat understandable why MS does this, if you read the quarterly financial report from MS, quote:

Search revenue was up significantly, growing by 18 percent in constant currency, thanks to both higher revenue per search and higher search volume. 35 percent of search revenue in March was driven by Windows 10, indicating that the Bing and Cortana integration in Windows 10 is yielding dividends.

Source

Of course MS will push as hard as it can for W10, there's nothing better than pushing ads in the OS. Except maybe Google for the time being...

I believe Yahoo online services are on the auction block again :)

ThrashZone said:

I believe Yahoo online services are on the auction block again :)

Yes and no. Yahoo claims they are up for sale but is making it as difficult as possible for potential buyers.