One Thing I Dislike About Vista
Rants and Raves - 5 Comments » - Posted on November, 28 at 3:16 pm
The damn updates.
They take easily forty minutes to complete. It took a good 20 minutes for some system updates to install, then it took another 20 minutes for the updates to configure. In the meantime I was sitting here staring at the Vista screen watching the spin-a-roonie do its spin thing and reading the message: updates configuring. Afterwards my laptop shut down on it’s own then started up again. Freaked the shit out of me I tell you. It took so long I was beginning to think that I had somehow already managed to fuck up my new laptop.
That would have been a record even for me.
So if you’re new to Vista, pay attention when you go to shut down your computer. You should see a little shield for updates, if you don’t have a good forty minutes or so to spare I would seriously suggest looking for an option to install updates later. My mistake is that I didn’t notice the little thinger in the start menu when I was shutting down the laptop after class. I was then forced to do the updates then, and boy did that take forever and a day.
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EW not good. I should update the computer that I’m on but never seem to find the time… and when I updated my desktop things went to hell in a hand basket. rawr.
I’m not sure which is worse, Vista or XP! LOL XP likes to update whenever it pleases as well. And it wants you to restart the computer. If you tell it now, it’ll wait, but it’ll bug you to death. At least mine does.
Charity,
Yeah, the desktop does that to me, but it gives me the choice at least. My laptop didn’t, I just clicked the shutdown button in the start menu, had a second to realize that there was a shield there this time, and then it started doing the updates on it’s own without giving me a chance to tell it later. =/ Normally I do ctrl+alt+del then select log off and then shut down, wish I had done that this time instead of the other way. -_-
Oh well, it gone done and out of the way ne?
Yikes, that does not sound pretty. I haven’t heard very many good things about Vista yet, but then again many people didn’t like XP when it first came out. That really isn’t cool about the 40 minute updates. I’ve never seen other Windows platforms do that. But I did hear that Vista is slower and larger than previous ones, so that could explain it.
That’s too bad you had to go through that long of a wait for updating Vista. I have not experienced updates taking even close to that much time. Maybe 5-8 minutes at the most.
Although I’ve had a disk check start and had not known about it because I started up my computer and left it and came back to see the screen scanning a 250GB hard drive and I was supposed to be working.