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
I had the exact same problem after reinstalling Windows 7 a few months ago.
