Most of that is Office updates. Since a few months back, they've decided to update nearly every file in Office2013 every month. I really have no idea why, but it's damn annoying.
Installed it, went smoothly UI feels more responsive. Programs seem snappier. System feels more stable. Boot time is a little faster. This to me is a major update, its over 100MB! With over 1GB of other updates for me! I remember smaller service packs even. Windows New Technology (NT) 6.3.9600.17238.amd64fre.winblue_gdr.140723-2018 Congratulations on your hard work Microsoft! This is awesome! WOOOT Compiled July 23rd! FRESH and delicious!
I agree with your points. Indeed, 43 out of the 45 Updates are Microsoft 2013 related updates in mine. Another thing that is confusing, though, is that they all indicate as important updates. There is no single one that is included as optional update.
Most of the non-August-Rollup updates I see are either for IE11/flashplayer or NetFX3. The .NET3 update is shockingly large. I'm not used to seeing a .net update at 88MB.
I am encouraged by this your very comment. I want mine to finish so that I can test my touchpad that behaves funny at times.
As I said earlier... "Those updates tend to be huge because Microsoft now updates features in Office 2013 (whereas Office 2010 was strictly bug-fix), which means that they are also touching localization/language files (that previously would be untouched for the entire product lifecycle), and those files are huge." The way Office is organized on a technical level is not really suitable for rapid-release. Hopefully they'll address that in the next version of Office.
I didn't experience any issue at all. It really makes my touchpad better, the occasional highlighting of files has been eliminated. Before I can easily highlight a message unnecessarily. The updates increase the brightness of the screen(the resolution is more clearer) and there is flexibility in the whole activities on the desktop. I notice another thing, the sound of my fan is almost zero-silence. I am impressed by these important changes. I have a different experience. I haven't checked on my metro apps yet. For those who didn't see any changes perhaps there are reasons for that. Who knows what they are? As for your issue: Code: cleanmgr Select all the boxes. It is a simple solution that usually works the trick.
Do you mean you tried what I said? After completing the cleanup do your Windows update check and try to install your updates again. P.S: Don't forget to restart your system after the cleanup is complete.
Nope, I meant I use a clean system always. Before I do anything I clean my system, so I can not figure out why I am getting error 0x800F0922.
I think it's very annoying, especially if you are using SSD as your system drive. Every month you have to install a huge chunk of updates and all these eat up the SSD space fairly quickly. I don't understand why MS would do this. Why not intergrate all these new features into a brandnew iso and ship it to the customers? That way, if the customers need the new feature they can update via the ISO, or if they don't need the new feature, they just use their original Office. I don't see any good reason why these huge update files, other than security patches, to be pushed to every customer every single month. Is MS fxxking out of their mind? Stupid MS! If I ever find a way to not use MS office and some other Windows only applications, I will use Linux all the time.
After the updates you can do dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup /resetbase This removes all redundant things but makes it unable to remove the updates. I always do this and never had problems with it, so you may try the same if you want. And there's also disk cleanup of course.