Why react, Jim?

Nice avatar, Doc. Is that a PhotoShark?

I got 7 important updates...none critical. After the install it took just under three minutes to boot up.

@ kona and anyone else interested...

Not all updates complete their entire 'update process' immediately, so it is quite possible......and in cases like with .NET etc. (quite probable) that the 'updated' file(s) in question may still be performing other operations in the background including but not limited to cleanup etc. etc. etc.

The above can of course have an averse (albeit temporary) effect on system load-time(s) and/or program responsiveness etc. etc.

As stated for instance .NET updates sometimes require additional post-update processing/file operations and while those are usually scheduled for times when the CPU is idle, it is possible for some of those file operations to take place on subsequent system 'reboots' and/or at other times when they may be more noticeable to the user.

Great explanation, Monk. Worthy of karma.

I have Windows 7. My point is that even after rebooting 5 times it's still taking upwards of five minutes to boot when it used to take one minute at the most.

That's what makes working with computer interesting......we all set ours up differently or to our own likes, which is why no one is responding having the same experience that you are kona. 

If you are using Win8.1 with WB please do not install the optional update in the list until after you upgrade WB to the latest files which will be out on Wednesday.  The automatic ones should be fine, just avoid the optional one for now.

Nice job, Neil! Thanks! 

Opening the 'Computer Management' console snapin (START> RUN>compmgmt.msc) and parsing the 'Windows Logs' by drilling down in the 'Event Viewer' may help shed some light.  For explanation of individual event ID's there are several web resources readily available via a quick web search.

Thank you, Neil, for your reply!  I updated all 33 updates and the optional KB2955164 update, and received a black screen after entering my PIN.  I tried many different fixes, but nothing helped.  Thankfully someone said long ago to make sure you have another Admin user account, so I was able to log in to that account and delete that optional update.  After that, I was able to log into my regular user account.

I just saw this thread and was going to warn of the optional update.  I'm glad to know that it had to do with an incompatibility with WB. 

Thanks again!

I usually leave the optional ones alone for that very reason. 

I got 15 updates on Windows 7 and 21 on Windows 8. Guess they released a lot more than 8 updates total.

Probably the rest were optional? 

one of them just doesn't install for me. 2871997