Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2

[Doctor Phibes]

I don't think I've had a Windows patch that took more than 5 minutes to install. Hell, Windows 11 only took about an hour. Apparently, I installed this one back in July

[Copper]

I installed the SSD on the Windows PC this morning.

Of course it took a bunch of playing around with stupid partitions.

It may be worth it, it is about a million times faster that the HDD. I didn't time any tests so that is just a rough estimate.

[mark]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2:

I don't think I've had a Windows patch that took more than 5 minutes to install. Hell, Windows 11 only took about an hour. Apparently, I installed this one back in July

Same experience I have with Windows 11. Very stable too.

22H2 installed on 5/10/23
23H2 installed on 11/22/23

[Copper]

The speed difference is very nice.

Little stuff like reading tncr is about the same, no big deal.

Copying lots of big files takes probably less than 10% of the time on the old HDD.

MS Flight Sim install went from 9+ hours to 3+ hours.

Boot time now is maybe a minute or so, it used to be 10-15 minutes.

[George K]

@Copper said in Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2:

Boot time now is maybe a minute or so, it used to be 10-15 minutes.

I just checked. My 2023 Mac Mini (M2 chip) booted from its internal SSD.

From startup chime to functioning desktop and all external devices mounted.

23.05 seconds.

[Rainman]

Copper, that's amazingly slow boot time.
Maybe your PC should see a Dr.

[George K]

Opening Word, Excel, Safari, AdBlock, Banktivity, Mail, Photos, Spamsieve, Notes, and DuckDuckGo added 16 seconds.

[Doctor Phibes]

Yeah, it's definitely worth shelling out from time to time - my 2-3 year old PC boots in about 15 seconds. NVMe FTW.

[Copper]

You know how you format the drive and install Windows

Then you install about a million Apps that go back for years and years

And after about a day and a half you install something that won't let the machine run for more than a few minutes before hitting the "BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH".

And over the next 2 days you reboot about several hundred times.

Then you finally reformat and start over again.

That is what I have been doing.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Copper said in Watch out for Windows 11, version 22H2:

You know how you format the drive and install Windows

I stopped doing that after Windows 7, for the reasons given in the rest of your post.

[Axtremus]

Hey a Mac.

[Copper]

After several days and hundreds of re-boots the problem is finally fixed.

I wiped out both the HDD and SSD and made the system completely unusable.

My best guess is that I had some kind of hardware error that made the problem show up a failure of, mouse, keyboard, video card, memory, system software, cooling system, and both drives.

Solution: unplug everything and put the machine in the closet.

Go to Costco and get a decent gaming PC, the kind with the see-through case that appeals to middle school gamer types. Lucky that I keep lots of backups.

Problem solved.

[Rainman]

Copper, you could easily become a computer repairman with guaranteed results!
"We charge more because you get more!"