Why did My laptop lag when I am installing 1 window update?


  1. Posts : 38
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       #1

    Why did My laptop lag when I am installing 1 window update?


    My laptop has 8GB of RAM and Intel i7 quad 2630m. I had mozilla firefox + google chrome opened with 3-6 tabs while playing youtube video but when I was installing this 1 windows update my laptop lagged until it the update was nearly completed.

    I don't think I should be lagging but my question is when installing windows update is it normal to lag and does it use the CPU or Hard drive?
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  2. Posts : 21,482
    Win 7 x64 Home Premium (and x86 VirtualBox VM)/Win10
       #2

    Which Update??

    Some updates do a lot of work - and some do very little.
    .NET updates can be very intensive, and require re-optimisation of the framework, which may make the system lag for a few minutes.
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    Originally Win 7 Hm Prem x64 Ver 6.1.7600 Build 7601-SP1 | Upgraded to Windows 10 December 14, 2019
       #3

    Koolman511 if I read your post correctly, you had:
    mozilla firefox + google chrome opened with 3-6 tabs while playing youtube video...
    while you were doing this Windows update?

    You can certainly use your machine as you see fit, and it does seem like a powerful one, but it would be prudent to close all other programs, and files when updating Windows system files. especially .net .

    Maybe Noel could clarify, it just seems like your only playing with fire if your updating that way.
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  4. Posts : 21,482
    Win 7 x64 Home Premium (and x86 VirtualBox VM)/Win10
       #4

    Having other programs running while doing updates isn't best practice, but Windows can almost always work around it. If necessary it will put the updates into a 'Pending' folder, and then force a reboot to complete the installation.
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    Originally Win 7 Hm Prem x64 Ver 6.1.7600 Build 7601-SP1 | Upgraded to Windows 10 December 14, 2019
       #5

    Thanks Noel!

    EDIT:

    I never had luck that way even back to the 3.1 days, so, I install in groups; .net, security, general, etc. .
    Does take a little longer, but if it makes my machine happy, I'm happy.
    Last edited by Anak; 03 Feb 2013 at 08:51. Reason: addendum
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  6. Posts : 21,482
    Win 7 x64 Home Premium (and x86 VirtualBox VM)/Win10
       #6

    I'm with you, when installing a bunch of updates - I always leave the .NET ones until last, and install them a couple at a time (oldest first).
    However, if the machine is kept up-to-date, I simply let Windows deal with it unless I know there are likely to be problems. MS has got a LOT better at updates over the years - I remember Win95 and win98/ME ones being a real PITA!
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