{"id":3786,"date":"2016-09-16T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T01:02:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-25T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:47:53","slug":"3786","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3786","title":{"rendered":"Why does the Logger Pro installer take so long to complete on Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Logger <i>Pro<\/i> is no longer sold and will no longer receive updates.<\/strong><br \/>For more information, see <a href=\"\/til\/18481\/\">Logger <i>Pro<\/i> will no longer receive updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If a computer is started after several weeks of being shut down (like after a summer break), there will be many Windows Updates to download and apply to the system. This assumes the machine is connected to the Internet. Windows gives Windows Updates a higher priority, which makes everything else run slower until those updates are downloaded and applied. If you attempt to install Logger <em>Pro<\/em> (or really do anything with that computer) before the update process is done, the installation can take a very long time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workarounds<\/strong><br \/>\u25cf Wait for the updates to finish, then install Logger <em>Pro<\/em>.<br \/>\u25cf Disconnect the computer from the network before installing\/ updating Logger <em>Pro<\/em>.<br \/>\u25cf Leave the computer connected overnight, and let Windows complete the update process. In the morning, install Logger <em>Pro<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logger Pro is no longer sold and will no longer receive updates.For more information, see . If a computer is started after several weeks of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[97,84,1095,6032,4583,4447,68],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-install","tag-logger-pro","tag-slow","tag-w7","tag-w8","tag-w8-1","tag-windows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}