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As some of you may know I've been struggling with my slooooow desktop PC which worked fine before, but didn't now even after a complete re-install.
I looked into buying a new one (thanks for all the tips!), but I decided I don't really feel like spending €1399,- on something I don't really REALLY need (yet).
So I took some more time to find out what's wrong with my computer.
Turns out the Windows Updater broke somewhere last year, checks for updates at startup, hangs, but still takes up all resources.
The fix was to download some updates manually, disconnect from the internet, restart (stay disconnected), install first update, restart again, install second update, reconnect to the internet, restart.
And it seems to have worked.
It only took me a good two hours to install Visual Studio 2015 CE and, more importantly, it takes only seconds to start instead of the minutes it took before.
I am now again the proud operator of the following system:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz 2.00 GHz
4,00 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series (2.804 MB)
2 TB SATA
I'll probably still buy a new computer later this year, but for now this'll do 
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How DARE you interfere with windows update!
It's more important than your computer, your work, and you put together!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm expecting some Microsoft goons by my bed somewhere tonight to give me the "black eye" update with the "broken bones" service pack and the "stabs" security patch
modified 29-Apr-16 16:31pm.
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(It's "black eye" in English)
(that'll be 50 cents for the English micro-lesson)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sander Rossel wrote: But fair is fair, here's 50 Cent[^]
<pukes>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, you asked for it
And believe it or not, but I was actually rapping it with a coworker today (which I never do, but it's a song from when we were in high school, so you know...) 
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Well, we can't all have the same tastes.
Or, as in your case, some of us can't have any taste...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think you're both showing your age difference. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: age difference.
Not keen on that term.
Let's go with "experience, diversity of knowledge, and usefulness difference", shall we?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You do realize it was more like 70 years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, right? Only about 10 years for 50 Cent. I'm 28, so you do the math 
Anyway, I don't particularly like 50 Cent so please allow me to (re-)introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste(s)
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Sander Rossel wrote: it was more like 70 years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, right?
I'd have to say "wrong".
I was seven, when it was released, and I'm more than twenty years below 77.
Sander Rossel wrote: please allow me to (re-)introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste(s)
Hey, don't expect any sympathy around these parts.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I'd have to say "wrong".
I was seven, when it was released, and I'm more than twenty years below 77.
It was released in 1967, about 50 years ago. At that time it was 20 years ago. 50 + 20 equals 70...
So you must be about 57 or old(er) and senile
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That's the point: I'm not 57 or older (it's really easy to work out my age from what I've already said)(but Developers + Arithmetic = Disaster, I know), and I'm certainly not... um... what were we talking about, again?
Nurse! Where are my slippers?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sander,
Were you running Win7? I recently experienced this same behavior on a VM and reported it here.
Updating it fixed it finally.
Also, a home laptop was behaving the same way but the updates won't run on it and it keeps forcing me to update to Win10 which I'm happy to do but fails every time.
You are allowed to use your hardware IF Microsoft SAYS you're allowed to use your hardware. IF! 
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If you're using this box for development, I strongly recommend upgrading to 8GB of RAM.
/ravi
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No serious development, so I'm not upgrading anything and going right for a new (gaming/dev) PC later this year
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Cool! It's always fun buying new hardware. I tend to buy high powered boxes that I can use for 5-7 years. Right now I'm in the market for a 2nd monitor (or a new primary monitor).
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: It's always fun buying new hardware
Not to happy about it... It's quite a bit of money 
Of course once the big spending is done and you've cried yourself to sleep a few times the healing can begin.
And a brand new gaming PC helps to speed up any healing process
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I was gonna say, whatever this machine's being used for, give that poor i7 more RAM so it can stretch its legs.
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I agree. Increasing the RAM from 4G is prolly the cheapest bang for the buck.
/ravi
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Could anyone who's running Windows 10 try running the following command from the "Run" dialog and let me know the results?
rundll32.exe appwiz.cpl,NewLinkHere %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
On my machine, and on every other machine I've tried it on, it pops up the "create shortcut" dialog[^].
But a user in QA is insisting that it doesn't work on any of his computers, and is demanding that I remove my "incorrect" answer.
Also, if someone more diplomatic than me would like to join the conversation[^]...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thanks for trying it. Which build of Windows? And was it an upgrade, or a fresh install?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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