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Why does Disk Cleanup take so much time and cpu?
Just a curiosity question. Disk Cleanup has been spending 100% of one of my cores for quite a while and still going. Seems to be spending a lot of time especially on Windows Update Cleanup.
Can't ...
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Stuck on preparing for installation windows 10
My Windows 10 update is getting stuck for me today at this point
It’s unclear if this is due to demand today, or thanks to other bugs. The list of problems related to Windows 10 getting stuck ...
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Cannot install Windows 8.1 Update Kb2919355. Windows Update Error 80073712
I'm running Win 8.1 Pro x64. On April 9th, I was offered two updates from Microsoft. Usually, updates install automatically through Windows update but the following two updates, I noticed today (April ...
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Windows update change download location
Is there a way to change the download path of windows updates?
(I want to protect my SSDs from unnecessary writes.)
Edit:
I read a lot of articles about SSD in the last 6 months, and I came to the ...
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Windows Update fails with code 80244019
I just found that Windows Update is failing and hasn't installed any updates for a little more than a month.
It says:
Windows could not search for new updates
There was a problem searching for ...
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Windows update failing with error 80244007 "could not search for new updates"
Windows 8.1 suddenly reported from the notification area that it hasn't been able to run updates for over a while now. The metro-style update app doesn't tell me much about why the updates are failing,...
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How can I stop Bing Bar from showing up in Windows Update
How can I stop the Bing Bar from continuing to show up in Windows Update. I have selected "Hide update" on it many times, but it eventually comes back. I do not have the Bing Bar installed on my ...
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How to Disable Windows 10 update permanently? [duplicate]
How to permanently disable all notifications and updates to Windows 10?
Currently when I open Windows Update panel the first main update is Upgrade to Windows 10 system.
Other updates are not ...
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Cannot install any updates on clean Windows 8.1
I made a clean install of Windows 8.1 on a computer. I'm trying to check for updates. The update check takes very long and finally the Windows Update section tells me that no updates are available and ...
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How to fix Windows 8.1 Update Hanging
My Windows 8.1 laptop has not been updated for a long time. I am trying to run Windows Update > Check for updates but it keeps showing the Checking for updates... progress bar forever (more than 3 ...
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Windows update fails with error 80073712, how to fix?
I have a laptop with Windows 8.1. Since patch Tuesday, it mysteriously freezes for about 4 minutes shortly after every bootup. There's barely enough time to log in before it happens. I tried a System ...
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How to stop Windows from switching back to "install updates automatically"?
I have Windows Updates set to "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them". However, Windows keeps changing back to "install updates automatically".
In this post I read ...
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Can't install Windows 8.1 Update - Error 0x800f081f
My laptop came with Windows 8 pre-installed. I installed all Microsoft updates, including that to 8.1 and have continued to do so.
The latest update which has come through is KB 2912355 which is a ...
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How can I upgrade a clean Windows 8 install to Windows 8.1?
When I clean-installed my Windows 8, hoping to start clean when I upgraded to Windows 8.1, I noticed that the Windows 8.1 upgrade was absent from the Windows Store.
It appeared again once I had spent ...
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Upgrading Windows 8.1 to 8.1 Pro fails with "This key won't work. Check it and try again, or try a different key"
I can't seem to find a way to upgrade my laptop Windows 8.1 (64 bits) OS to Windows 8.1 Pro. I do have a key for the new version but when I input it in the Windows updater, it tells me:
This key ...
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