On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:01:53 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

There were over 30 "important" updates to
download and install, a process that took about half an hour.

All I was doing was looking for a picture that was on it for a project I
am working on.

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You can fix that by changing the update settings:


Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Update\Change settings\Check
for updates but let me choose when to install them