Forgot your password?   Comment: .NET Updates Clobber My System
(Score 4, Interesting) 375  by ewhac (#45709267) Attached to:
Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines I
couldn't tell you why, but I haven't (yet) observed the
described behavior on my XP system. The auto-updater ususally
settles down in a matter of minutes.  No. In my case, it's
trying to apply the .NET updates that completely murders my
system. Apparently MS wants a gigabyte or so of free disk space
on C:\ (and nowhere else) or the update will fail miserably. As
it happens, my system partition has about 200MB free space, so
the update disappears down a rabbit hole and never completes.  I
used to think it was because it needed a bunch of temporary disk
space, so last night I changed the TMP and TEMP environment
variables to point to a volume with tons of free space, rebooted
(because, you know, it's Windows), set just one of the several
.NET updates running, then went off to see The Hobbit. When I
returned some three hours la