Update Day

[kevin_standlee]

My company is in the process of rolling out Windows 11 updates to all of their computers. This a very large task, as there are thousands of computers all over the world that have to be updated. Fortunately, they didn't require me to go to the Fremont office to get the update. Nevertheless, what probably should have only taken an hour took much of the day. The engineer handling my computer remotely had a whole lot of trouble getting things to install. Even after he handed it back over to me with instructions, there were several more Win10 updates that had to be installed first (and the computer restarted) before we could even start the Win11 update. The Win11 update itself, even over my decently speedy internet connection, took more than an hour to download. (I don't know exactly how long it took because Kayla decided it was time for us to make the trip to Sparks about which she wrote on her journal after an hour of waiting.)

This morning, the computer had downloaded yet more updates, and they also had to be installed and the computer restarted again. That seems to be all of it for now.

So far, Win11 seems to be working okay, and it didn't reorganized my computer or change the user interface as much as I expected it would do.

Comments

[msconduct]

Weird, we went through this with our current client a few months ago and it took around 15 minutes for most people.

[kevin_standlee]

This particular company PC has been cranky from its early days. It's probably nearing the end of its service life anyway, and in general, it seems like machines with a "bare metal" fresh installation tend to work better anyway. I hate a fresh machine in a different way, though, because there are some extra pieces of software (in particular, Microsoft Access) that is not part of the company's standard installation, and it typically takes a long time to convince the company to install it on my machine, because they don't classify me as "part of IT," which would qualify me to have it.

[cmcmck]

We now have it on our lappie and it seems to work okay although we mostly use chrome.

Well

[lsanderson]

My primary whinge is the task bar locked to the bottom of the screen where it occupies important space. It can be moved by editing the registry, but PIA.