Card on fire

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

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

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