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I use a cellular connection to run my computer and have to pay for my data. Right now I have 5 GB of data a month and if I was to update my computer every time Windows wants to update it, I would run out of data even if I was not going to use my computer at all. I turned of automatic updates to control it , but it is very frustrating to do this. I have to take my laptop to the library in town just to do updates. I costs me $6.00 in gas just to go to town and back. I try not to go to town more than 2 times a month.
Why is it that Microsoft has no concern about the amount of data it requires to do updates. I chatted with some arrogant support person and he treated me like an idiot and said he was going to send me some trouble shooting that might help me. He never sent me anything and I know it is because if he sent the chat transcript, he would be fired when I reported him.
Right now it is requesting an update for .9 GB. The previous update was for 2.16 GB. It happens all the time.
I want to keep my computer up to date but Microsoft makes it very difficult to do so. There has to be a way to have updates that just change a small potion of a program with out consuming so much data.
GET IT TOGETHER MICROSOFT!!!!!
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I took my laptop to a place with decent wifi. It went into an update frenzy. One ‘features update’ took two hours to download. For the moment, the laptop is replete.
I did go into settings/internet/wifi and disable updates using a metered connection. But I don’t trust this entirely yet and I watch, perhaps obsessively, my cell phone data usage.
I too, am concerned about my metered connection data usage, and report that half of my GB total for the month has been Updating Windows 8.1. I get update requests almost every morning and attempt to install them, but often have "failed to install" problems, with no idea why this is happening. Why does the "downloading update" bar stop halfway across? I often go make my coffee and come back to see it still in that position. When do I get to use my computer? It seems Microsoft is using it more than I am. Can you leave that "downloading" screen and go about your receiving mail, and checking the news on the internet? If I go to the home page is it aborting the update? Sometimes when I go back to the settings page, I get the message "all done" but what is the delay. Often it is a half a day later before I can close out the settings window. Why does it take so long to "install". It seems to me that the update mechanics are very glitchy. I can send a 1.5 MB photo in a couple of seconds. Why can't it (Microsoft) download and install a 1.5 MB update in the same time frame? What don't I know about the process?
I totally agree with you, they doing some besides downloading updates. Who knows???
I wonder what happens if you don't download updates?
It's easy: http://cmdrkeene.com/monitor-limit-data-usage-windows-8-1
I wish someone had told me this earlier; I have consumed so much cellular data when I didn't want to, had to pay for overages. Maybe I can use my laptop again. Thank you.
You could just disable the Windows Update service, pretty sure that'd stop it entirely. Or you can check this out to fine-tune exactly what times and/or amounts of bandwidth can be used.
you are forcing updates on my computer draining my data which I have to pay for. dish informed me this morning my data was low because of this. I do not want any updates period.
