So you just turn on your computer and it tells you that it's preparing to configure windows updates.... how long is it going to take?
The answer to that really is how long is a piece of string. It really depends on so many things.
Some updates are quite quick to sort, others, like major changes to the operating system can take a while (in some cases if your computer isn't the fastest may even take an hour or longer).
I've just had a customer on the phone asking just this question. It turns out that the computer hasn't been used for nearly two months, and it's now going through all the updates that Microsoft has released in that time.
I know that in an ideal world, all updates would take seconds and the computer would just do all the major updates when you turn it off, but we don't live in an ideal world, and we don't really use computers like that.
I know I only restart one of my computers when it tells me that it needs to restart to do updates other than that, it is just put to sleep when I'm not using it. I do also have some PCs at work that get restarted every day as I don't need them on when I'm not using them.
Computers like to be used regularly, so don't leave them in the corner gathering dust and feeling left out :)
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