3 hours to upgrade Windows 10

Stattovic

Stattovic

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When I arrived at work, I turned on my laptop as I had some urgent files to create.

The Lenovo laptop started to upgrade my Windows 10, Installing, configurating, rebooting etc.

I had no idea this was going to take 3 hours, which meant a wasted morning trying to find other things to do.

Is there a way I could perhaps set it to do this overnight for example. I will have to work late this evening to finish what I needed to do.

Any advise would be appreciated.

Many thanks
 
A Windows 10 upgrade will take a while. Once you're on Windows 10 it won't "upgrade" again until a new major version is released.
 
It will now just download Win10 updates and apply them when you'll turn off or restart your computer.
 
A normal upgrade time from a previous version of windows is usually anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half depending on system specs.
 
johnb35 said:
A normal upgrade time from a previous version of windows is usually anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half depending on system specs.
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If you're upgrading and keeping programs and files it also depends how many of those you have too because they surely have to be migrated?
 
Grantapus said:
I think that it will update almost as fast as your connection will download it.
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No, thats not true. If you have a previous OS installed and upgrading then most likely the update files have already been downloaded to your system so its just a matter of starting the upgrade. And how long it takes to install is dependent on your system specs and how fast your HDD /SDD is.

Grantapus said:
Well, I don't "think", I know.
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NO, you don't know. You seriously have no clue.
 
Thanks for these comments guys, the problem with Windows updating was that I needed to do some urgent work, and it held me up.

It says do not turn off your computer. I would rather it did it overnight is there a way in settings to alow updates to be installed.
 
Stattovic said:
It says do not turn off your computer. I would rather it did it overnight is there a way in settings to alow updates to be installed.
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if you are on windows 10 then the system doesn't update until you go to shut it down and then reboot. Same thing with Windows 7 or 8. It shouldn't start installing updates while you are using the pc.
 
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And if you have Windows 10 Pro you can defer upgrades (note: not updates, upgrades - new builds of the OS) so you can install them at a time that suits you.
 
Stattovic said:
When I arrived at work, I turned on my laptop as I had some urgent files to create.

The Lenovo laptop started to upgrade my Windows 10, Installing, configurating, rebooting etc.

I had no idea this was going to take 3 hours, which meant a wasted morning trying to find other things to do.

Is there a way I could perhaps set it to do this overnight for example. I will have to work late this evening to finish what I needed to do.

Any advise would be appreciated.

Many thanks
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johnb35 said:
A normal upgrade time from a previous version of windows is usually anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half depending on system specs.
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I started a Windows 10 Upgrade from Windows 7 Starter at 5pm yesterday. It finished at 1am this morning ;)
 
LMAO...

Those specs are just as bad as having a 75mhz cpu, 8mb ram and a 500mb hard drive running windows 95. Total cost was $1800
 
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