What does 100% mean?

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I’m doing the July update on my win10/20h2 system.  And about 15 minutes ago began saying “Status: downloading 100%”.    But in that 15minutes it has continued to pulling down data at full speed [NB: no broadband here, so that’s not very fast, but still…].    What is going on?  Does 100% mean something different in windows than it does everywhere else???

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doriel

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Quick followup — after a *half*hour* at full-speed [only about 2 megs/sec] it has, at last, started installing.   Is this kind of thing normal?

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Downloading updates the update from the Microsoft Update catalog has been that slow lately, download speeds were faster earlier this year.

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Bernie,

I have a 200+ Mbps connection and it does the same for me! Well, almost the same. It always stays at 100% for a short period before it starts installing. I’ll look at it and say on 100% start installing but there is always that pregnant pause. I’ve never measured it but it is definitely there even with the speedy connection.

HTH 😎

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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John, DriftyDonN, doriel

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WU monthly CU has usually 2 parts of downloading :
First part is Service Stake and second part security updates.
WU may display 100% for the SSU and then resume download for the security updates.

Microsoft promised better update notifications in Windows 11.

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doriel

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My experinece with 20H2 update status is following sequence of displayed messages:

Installation 1 … 100 %
Downloading 1 … 100 %
Installation 1 … 100 %
Restart
Installation in the blue screen after boot 1 … 100%
Login screen
Blue screen with text “This may take few minutes..”

Very funny 🙂 gets old really quickly if you do several PCs per day like I did.

PS – I think the last percent takes so long, because the installation is testing consistency of dowloaded file, I didnt notice the network load, but Im not saying its not happening.

Dell Latitude 3420, Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM, W10 22H2 Enterprise

HAL3000, AMD Athlon 200GE @ 3,4 GHz, 8GB RAM, Fedora 29

PRUSA i3 MK3S+

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IT Manager Geek, SuzyQ777

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doriel wrote:

Restart
Installation in the blue screen after boot 1 … 100%
Login screen
Blue screen with text “This may take few minutes..”

I have always 2 restarts : after first restart updates run to 30% and then restarts and continue update to 100%.

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DriftyDonN

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I agree, the number of restarts may vary.

Dell Latitude 3420, Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM, W10 22H2 Enterprise

HAL3000, AMD Athlon 200GE @ 3,4 GHz, 8GB RAM, Fedora 29

PRUSA i3 MK3S+

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Interesting. I have never had more than 1 restart when installing monthly patch

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