Windows 7 updates take forever

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Robin Curtis, Feb 19, 2018.

  1. Robin Curtis

    Robin Curtis Member

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    Just installed 5 Windows 7 updates - took 6 hours. Should it really take this long ?
    MacBook Pro Mid 2010. Sierra. 8GB memory.
    Patience getting stretched here ...........
    Any pointers ?
    Thanks
    (ps: new hard drive - because it was suggested that I might have had a "silently failing" drive - which was leading to slow responses. Not so sure any more).
     
  2. Robin Curtis

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    Just noticed - that since being fired up this morning Windows 7 has Read 50GB and written 25GB (according to Activity Monitor). Why ? Does it read the entire Virtual disk or something ?
     
  3. Robin Curtis

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    Doing the same today. 18GB read, 8 GB written - just sits there continuously reading / writing.......is this a Windows 7 feature or something to do with Parallels ?
     

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