2903

Has anyone else seen the Run menu take much longer in Windows 10 anniversary? I press winkey+r and it takes every bit of three full seconds to come up. I just counted!

This is… not good. It’s new to the update.

Also, can I suggest we create a Windows 10 Post-Anniversary-Update topic? I hate these giant chat megathreads that go on for a decade where you can’t ever find any damn thing.

2904

My start menu behavior’s always been janky as fuck, but I suspect it’s a disagreement between Start10 and DisplayFusion causing the issue. Alas, if only the base software provided those features on its own I could avoid the whole deal. . .

2905

Just to be clear for someone who willingly chooses pain:
My update (on a non-SSD drive) took me about 2 1/2 hours from the start of the download to finishing.

2906

It is instant for me. Version 10.0.14393 Build 14393.

2907

There’s somewhere between 350-400 million PCs that are running Win 10 now. It’ll take weeks for the Anniversary Update to roll out to all of them.

2908

Specifically, not because of load, but because of caution. Like I said it’s intentionally blocked for some people until there’s more data confirming things are going well. Then the floodgates will be opened.

You’ll probably be fine if you force it now, but if you don’t see it now you’re better off just waiting.

2909

Wow, that sounds wonderful. Mine took 4 hours plus. But the longer I use this HP laptop I suspect that the hard drive is the slowest one they could put in it.

2910

Instant here for Run using the shortcut. Same version (14393).

2911

Thanks, that’s good to know. Much appreciated!

2912

Mine showed up last night!

It said, “Hi, we’ve updated your computer. All your files are…”

2913

Anyone know what things can “stop” an automatic update reboot from happening on Education/Enterprise edition?

I commonly schedule my reboots–say, at 2:45AM–and come back the next day to find the PC saying that the restart failed to occur and I need to reschedule.

Generally, when this happens, I have stuff running–Pidgin, Steam, Whatpulse, Greenshot, DisplayFusion–but just the kinda stuff that you let run in the background. Oh, and a browser window.

But I’m not there sitting around and interacting with it. It’s not prompting me for permission to reboot, is it? If so, why does it always suggest times when it thinks I won’t be at the PC?

2914

If you’re in enterprise or education you can still use all the same Windows update group policies which have existed forever. On phone so I can’t get it now, but you can schedule specific install and restart times, disable automatic reboots entirely, etc.

Stuff which I wish consumers could still do :-/

2915

I appreciate the reply, and definitely in the same boat (and I bought Education partly because of all this), but issue seems to be that when I do schedule an update to my preference. . . it fails to initiate because “something” keeps the system from rebooting as I ask it to. I’m just trying to figure out what that might be.

2916

Is it obvious when you get this update or does it look like other updates? I think over the weekend, maybe, when I shut down it said it had updates to apply, and then when I booted back up the next day it was just my normal windows desktop. I assumed they were normal patches and not this anniversary mega patch. Unless it makes a point to tell you, then I have no idea if I have that update or not.

Does this one also undo all the shutup 10 configuration changes?

2917

Weird. So it tries to reboot but something blocks it?

2918

Good sense?

I kid, I kid! :P

2919

That’s basically what it says. I don’t have exact text in front of me, sorry. But yeah, pc is idle (but unlocked) for hours ahead of these attempts, but it fails to restart anyway, as though something is actively “using” the PC. I suspect it’s a program I’m running, but dunno. I can manually initiate updates just fine, but it’d be nice if the PC could take care of that on its own while I sleep.

AKA, I’m having the exact opposite problem MOST Windows 10 users are in that my PC just won’t reboot randomly to update itself ;-)

2920

Yeah, I can empathize.

If you’re able to get more specific info about what’s happening, feel free to PM me the details and include the specific group policy configurations you’re using. I can pass along a note to the team to see if they have any ideas.

2921

Not all, but some of them yes. You will need to download it again and reapply a bunch.

2922

Woke up today and all of those cute shortcut arrows were back. Yay! Time to unfuck stuff.