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    Endless blue spinning animation (unresponsive Win Updates)

    Did you have the exact same issue two days ago, meaning exact same updates happened? EDIT: I was able to find a temporary workaround (courtesy of MS forums), via setting Windows Update to automatically download and install updates in Control Panel. After doing that, the screen prompted to...
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    Endless blue spinning animation (unresponsive Win Updates)

    I can easily return this product -- but I'm 99.99% sure it's not the hardware itself but rather Windows Update acting odd. Similar people have had the exact same issue, which only strengthens my hypothesis. See here: Recent updates has made Windows Update unresponsive (endless blue - Microsoft...
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    Endless blue spinning animation (unresponsive Win Updates)

    Hi guys. Just bought a brand new Dell XPS 8700 a few days ago. Windows Update was fine until I tried updating a large number of updates a few minutes ago. After my computer restarted, I notice the blue spinning just spinning endlessly as if the "Windows Update" option was no longer responsive...
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    New laptop w/ a 256GB SSD, showing only 170GB "free"?!

    Are you saying the 2nd 34GB space would be recoverable (170GB out of 204GB free one)? If so, how do I go about removing the space? What other consequences would there be aside from not being able to have a "recovery disk" ? Remember I have two 34GB missing. There's one located on the image...
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    New laptop w/ a 256GB SSD, showing only 170GB "free"?!

    Hey guys, I've just been playing around with my Sony Vaio Flip with a 256GB SSD and noticed a lot of space was missing. It is my understanding that Windows 8 & 8.1 uses space for recovery files and upgrade files. I guess my concern is whether the space I'm seeing is actually normal or not. Upon...
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