On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:44:20PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 7/15/2016 12:16 PM, Meta wrote: > > On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > > I'm excluding the pain of Windows reinstall, as it took 14 hours > > > of sitting there blankly "checking for updates". I wonder what it > > > was possibly doing that took 14 hours (the disk was fresh, there > > > was nothing to transmit to the NSA). > > > > It's a known Windows issue: > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/3069693/microsoft-windows/windows-7-update-scans-taking-forever-kb-3153199-may-solve-the-problem.html > > The article is full of "seems to work", "may work", and "some say it > didn't work". > > You'd think Microsoft could attach a debugger to it, figure out > exactly why, and fix it. It's staggering how this goes unnoticed and > unfixed.
One of the many reasons I gave up on Windows many years ago, and never looked back. ;-) T -- I don't trust computers, I've spent too long programming to think that they can get anything right. -- James Miller