The ancient netbook is on Day 3 of a Windows Update. After two full days, it finally showed what it found: 290 patches.
That must have been the slow part; it’s currently, after a mere 6 hours, 100 patches down, with 200 or so to go. It could be another full day before this round is done – and I anticipate several more runs before the system tells me it’s all caught up. Those should be much, much quicker.
There’s probably another analog to health here. The longer you let things slide, the longer and more effort it will take to determine what issues are present, let alone resolve them.
Part of me wonders if this is wasted time, because my plan is to swap in an SSD and I may be resinstalling from scratch. If the thing had a larger screen I’d skip straight to the latest Windows 10.