window modules installer worker: fun!
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I had my laptop (Win10) turned off for a few days because we went on vacation and I left turned it off before traveling. I turned it back on and now Win10 is maxing out all 8 cpus to 100% with the Window Modules Installer Worker. That seems very efficient to me. I couldn't really tell what was going on -- but I knew that it had to be Win10 updates. Now, as I'm typing this (on another computer) I can hear the fans slowing down a bit in the laptop and lo and behold I see that there are windows updates to apply. It's such an amazingly bad update system. Even after it taking over all my CPUs I still have to "Update & Restart" and wait while it is doing the actual update. I just really can't believe it. My desktop, running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS was also off for many days. I ran the updates and they updated in the background with no problems. There are only two reasons I have the laptop running win10 for: 1. microchip / atmel studio 2. Steam games EDIT - Windows Hello When the machine finally came back up, it popped up a serious-looking message -- which took over the screen and it was Windows Hello saying,
Windows Hello said:
"if you want to continue to store face or fingerprint data on this computer please click "OK"
I said, Yes, since I have a fingerprint scanner, and the message disaappeared. That was very odd. have they been sued for data breach or something?
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I had my laptop (Win10) turned off for a few days because we went on vacation and I left turned it off before traveling. I turned it back on and now Win10 is maxing out all 8 cpus to 100% with the Window Modules Installer Worker. That seems very efficient to me. I couldn't really tell what was going on -- but I knew that it had to be Win10 updates. Now, as I'm typing this (on another computer) I can hear the fans slowing down a bit in the laptop and lo and behold I see that there are windows updates to apply. It's such an amazingly bad update system. Even after it taking over all my CPUs I still have to "Update & Restart" and wait while it is doing the actual update. I just really can't believe it. My desktop, running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS was also off for many days. I ran the updates and they updated in the background with no problems. There are only two reasons I have the laptop running win10 for: 1. microchip / atmel studio 2. Steam games EDIT - Windows Hello When the machine finally came back up, it popped up a serious-looking message -- which took over the screen and it was Windows Hello saying,
Windows Hello said:
"if you want to continue to store face or fingerprint data on this computer please click "OK"
I said, Yes, since I have a fingerprint scanner, and the message disaappeared. That was very odd. have they been sued for data breach or something?
raddevus wrote:
It's such an amazingly bad update system.
Win11 is just as bad. I realize people here will always defend Windows, but I'll just say this... my Linux box doesn't just get randomly sluggish a lot for no reason. Both boxes get updates, but only one is unusable half the time. And don't you dare disable updates... you'll be kicked out of the cool club and MS will come hunt you down like the dog you are. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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raddevus wrote:
It's such an amazingly bad update system.
Win11 is just as bad. I realize people here will always defend Windows, but I'll just say this... my Linux box doesn't just get randomly sluggish a lot for no reason. Both boxes get updates, but only one is unusable half the time. And don't you dare disable updates... you'll be kicked out of the cool club and MS will come hunt you down like the dog you are. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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raddevus wrote:
It's such an amazingly bad update system.
Win11 is just as bad. I realize people here will always defend Windows, but I'll just say this... my Linux box doesn't just get randomly sluggish a lot for no reason. Both boxes get updates, but only one is unusable half the time. And don't you dare disable updates... you'll be kicked out of the cool club and MS will come hunt you down like the dog you are. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
my Linux box doesn't just get randomly sluggish a lot for no reason
Truth!! I am just amazed that the same update problems that occurred when Win10 was initially rolled out are still there. Mind boggling! :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
raddevus wrote:
Win10 was initially rolled out are still there. Mind boggling!
why should be in another way? As they were paying atention to feedback... :sigh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I had my laptop (Win10) turned off for a few days because we went on vacation and I left turned it off before traveling. I turned it back on and now Win10 is maxing out all 8 cpus to 100% with the Window Modules Installer Worker. That seems very efficient to me. I couldn't really tell what was going on -- but I knew that it had to be Win10 updates. Now, as I'm typing this (on another computer) I can hear the fans slowing down a bit in the laptop and lo and behold I see that there are windows updates to apply. It's such an amazingly bad update system. Even after it taking over all my CPUs I still have to "Update & Restart" and wait while it is doing the actual update. I just really can't believe it. My desktop, running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS was also off for many days. I ran the updates and they updated in the background with no problems. There are only two reasons I have the laptop running win10 for: 1. microchip / atmel studio 2. Steam games EDIT - Windows Hello When the machine finally came back up, it popped up a serious-looking message -- which took over the screen and it was Windows Hello saying,
Windows Hello said:
"if you want to continue to store face or fingerprint data on this computer please click "OK"
I said, Yes, since I have a fingerprint scanner, and the message disaappeared. That was very odd. have they been sued for data breach or something?
I have a MacBook Pro and MacOS is far worse. If I do not do a full shutdown and just sleep it, when I turn it on a few days later, with any updates, an internal OS process will go nuts and max out the CPU to such a degree, even moving the mouse is a difficult task. I have looked at the Activity Monitor (Task Manager) and identified which process that does it. I can't recall it off the top of my head. It takes me several minutes to go through the process of doing a full shut down. When I do a cold boot after, everything is fine. Great when you have to log into a team meeting... :mad: Mac OS is a very buggy OS! Windows 11 is far more stable for me.
Graeme
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