Lunar Bovine - Jason Cobill's Weblog » bootup http://lunarbovine.com/blog Because sometimes I do things that are interesting. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:15:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Updater Wrestling http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2010/03/updater-wrestling/ http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2010/03/updater-wrestling/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:32:48 +0000 jcobill http://lunarbovine.com/blog/?p=1114 I had to unpack my laptop for the first time in 3 weeks so I could work from home this morning, and I got to sit and watch for a half hour as all of my software updaters wrestled for control of my internet connection, hard drive, and processor. In just 21 days there have been significant enough updates to run AVG’s scanning database updater, Java updater, Firefox Updater, all my Firefox plugins, Windows updater, Defender updater, three peices of my Adobe suite, Steam, iTunes, Quicktime, and my Java IDE.

I’m glad to have all of these things up to date, but the updater processes seem oblivious to eachother, and to me, trying immediately after bootup to grab up as much of my puny laptop processor as they can, tripping all over eachother’s feet, and fragmenting the heck out of my hard drive.

300MB and two restarts later, I’m considering looking more seriously into a “Startup Delayer” app to force my updaters to wait their turn as the OS boots. Anyone had any experience with this?

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