I normally enjoy fast startup times of 2-3 minutes. However, on certain days, the machine is unusable for 30-60 minutes after wake. This happens when the hard disk is 100% busy downloading updates, which can happen even if the machine has been on and running for many hours on the previous day.
If I turn on my computer, it's because I want to do something with it. How can I prevent all the updates from downloading immediately after wake? I accept the security risk of delaying updates by a few hours, and no, I do not want to buy an SSD.
Here's an example that happened to me this week: the machine is on and downloads all updates and restarts. The CPU load is down to <5%, disk activity <10%, even with apps open in the background. The next day, after waking the machine, the disk activity is at 100% for more than 1 hour while windows proceeds to download all kinds of new stuff. Trying to open a folder in windows explorer takes several minutes while this is going on, anything else is totally impossible. Are the new updates that weren't available just one day earlier really so important that I should not be able to use my machine for over an hour?
