If you're fed up with Windows updates taking an inordinate amount of time to install and interrupting your gaming time, then Microsoft hears you. It's looking to change that with the next update, which should make the whole process far quicker and require less downtime for your system.
Although it will very much depend on the power and speed of your hardware -- CPU, RAM and storage performance will all have a part of to play -- Microsoft hopes to cut update times down dramatically. With the Creators Update that it released in Spring 2017, the average update time was said to take around 82 minutes, according to Microsoft. With the next Spring 2018 Creators Update, the plan is to get that down to just 30 minutes on average.
Officially known as Redstone 4, this update follows the Anniversary Update, the Creators Update and the Fall Creators Update, each of which overhauled various aspects of Windows 10 and continued the ethos of an ever-evolving operating system, rather than the systematic version updates seen in operating systems past, as per PCGamer.
To help speed up these updates in the future, Microsoft is extending the amount of information that can be updated during system usage. That means that the update will spend much more time chugging along in the background of your PC, updating as you work and play as usual. It will save all of the big stuff for the reboot phase -- which will last longer -- but it will only be a single reboot, so that should help things along too.
Because of these changes, the online phase for the feature update will take longer to complete. However, this should not be noticeable to most users, as the setup processes run at a low priority, so they won’t have a large impact on a device’s battery life or system performance," Microsoft said in a statement.
Will this news mean you guys are a little more diligent with your updates?
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