Always make regular backups of your data (and test them).
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Windows is probably creating a restore point too. But in general I notice that small updates take ages to download. Then takes ages to install. This os win 7 too.
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Microsoft's servers are definitely part of it. I work for a county government and when we run updates on a new or imaged Windows 7 install, the download takes much longer than you would expect for say 60MB of updates.
Whereas, I get 3 or 4MB/s when I do Ubuntu updates.
Good question OP. I've wondered about this myself.
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That's why I disabled the automatic updates when I was using Windows.
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