[Shop-talk] LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG OVER DUE WINDOWS UPDATES

[Peter Murray]

I just imaged a workstation this morning with Windows 7 Enterprise - last
patches were applied in 2012. It took several hours (50Mbit internet) and
about 3 reboots before it was up-to-date.

-Peter

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 9:52 AM <eric at megageek.com> wrote:

> Tim asks about updating after a while.
>
> I find that it is normally not an issue.  It may take MANY (read as ten or
> more)  "Update Windows" to get all the updates.
>
> Windows does a good job of make sure the app will 'run' on the machine.
> How fast, is the only question.
>
> With that said, with a computer that beat, I would make a restore point
> first, then run them all, making a restore point after each one.
>
> I bet they will all run and everything will be fine.
>
> YMMV
>
>
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