Windows 10

[vishalrao]

Yeah it should but I don't trust it and on top of that I'm not sure if all machines need to be powered on and connected at the same time for it to save bandwidth effectively. Plus at the end of all that you don't have an ISO at hand for later re-installs.

 

[Sushubh]

so you reinstall windows on all your machines just to get them up to date?

 

[vishalrao]

No no, I didn't say that, did I?

I used the same ISO to update my two home desktops which were already running Win10 (version "1511") and to do a fresh install on a laptop which didn't have the OS. So it took me "only" about 3.5 GB data to download the ISO once and reuse it rather than updating the two desktops via Windows Update which would have probably taken an extra 7 GB I'm sure.

Maybe to clarify further I should mention I only have 30 GB monthly quota on my Airtel 4G connection and another 10 GB on my BSNL line - which is why all this rigmarole I guess folks lucky enough to have like 100-200 GB and more quotas with high speed are snickering at people like me right now.

 

[Sushubh]

you can update windows using an iso file? :wondering:

 

[vishalrao]

Yeah, why not? You can either double-click the ISO in Win10 itself - I believe it "mounts" it now, there you run setup.exe and it knows you are running from existing Win10 and does an upgrade instead of fresh install.

I just wrote the ISO to USB pen drive using Rufus and did both the upgrades and fresh installs from it. Same ISO written to pen drive also boots up into installer of course... and same pen drive opened in existing Win10 install you can run setup.exe for upgrade.

 

[Sushubh]

cool. had no idea.

 

[vishalrao]

What OS(es) are you running???

 

[Sushubh]

Windows 10 only.

 

[Sushubh]

Couldn't create a user. Piece of shit.

 

[Sushubh]

Can't set time between 10 in the morning and 2 in the night.