Delay for displaying installed updates + update schedule

Two basic questions while I'm building a zero-day, fully-updated Windows system with nothing else on it for imaging.

1. After reinstall, I noticed that populating Installed Updates took forever, while you had to wait for the dreaded green line moving rightwards. Is this normal ? I don't remember having to wait under my previous install.

2. After reading about the great Microsoft debacle of trying to push Windows 10 down everybody's throat through Windows Updates, I'm seriousy considering switching off Updates altogether and checking manually. When do Updates occur ? Is it still Patch Tuesday ?

Thanks, Layback Bear.

Does anybody experience the same problem as me : checking what updates are installed, and having to wait a while till they all appear in the window ?

Thanks, ThrashZone, that's also my current option for Windows Updates.

I have, like many others, experienced the huge time it takes these days to download updates. Another by-product of Microsoft trying to force Windows 10 on everyone, I suppose.

But my question was different. It was about the time it takes to display those updates that are already installed. I remember (maybe wrongly ?) that when you clicked on Installed Updates, the list was displayed immediately. Now, I have to wait for the green progress bar which you see in Windows Explorer when you do a search in an unindexed location.

Either something is wrong with my system, or it's a stupid bug. After all, Windows Updates should "know" in advance that you're likely to ask for that list some day, and be able to retrieve it immediately.

ThrashZone said:

Hi,
Oh okay yep that is normal or at least I see it too,
How fast I suppose depends on the system
7 is getting a bit large in the updates but if there was a sp2 (which I'm glad there isn't) because all of the now win-10 stuff
My new build it doesn't take more than 10-15 seconds to load them all
My Acer might take a few seconds longer :/

Mine takes 20 seconds (although .NET Framework updates appear immediately). I also read somewhere that this was normal behaviour (although I'd swear it was not that way before I reinstalled). So I guess it's a bug of Windows'. I thought maybe it was because I blocked several updates to Windows Update Client, and it couldn't keep track of where it put things.

Layback Bear said:

Completing this tutorial by Brink might be helpful.

Disk Cleanup - Open and Use

Thanks, but not yet ! Right now I have nothing on my PC : no data, almost no application software, I haven't even finished reinstalling. It's only Windows updates which slow down the beast. And boy -- do they slow down things.

I remember how my setup was snappy and reactive when I first discovered Windows 7 five years ago. Now it only has Firefox portable, Avast, Macrium and those blasted updates -- and I get the dreaded green rotating ring on my desktop at startup. Windows is looking more and more like a piece of malware by itself.