Windows 10: Bloatware updates make system unusable

Thread: Bloatware updates make system unusable

At random times, Windows becomes so slow that it's almost unusable. Task manager shows the C disk active at 100% for hours. It takes me 15 minutes to copy a file. Sometimes the disk pointer is frozen for a minute or two.

This has happened four or five times a month since I bought my Windows 10 laptop in March, and I finally figured out what's going on. The computer is downloading and installing the latest Microsoft bloatware and crapware updates, and is taking almost total control of my computer to do it.

It is ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS that I have to lose hours of work so that some Microsoft jackass can download crapware updates onto my machine. By the way, this is different from the security updates. Crapware updates can happen at any moment, any time of the day or night, even if security updates are paused.

Here's what happened on Tuesday (yesteray, Dec 24) when I had to get some critical work done: I got a Microsoft crapware attack starting at 10 am, which continued until after 1 pm. It was the worst crapware attack ever, since after it ended two of my apps (Acrobat and Emacs) no longer worked at all. I was afraid that the crapware update had done permanent damage by deleting essential files, so I rebooted, wasting another hour, and fortunately the apps worked again.

As if that weren't bad enough, I couldn't believe it but incredibly, at 3:55 pm, there was ANOTHER crapware attack. That lasted until 6 pm. And then at 6:30 pm there was ANOTHER crapware attack, lasting half an hour.

And what a surprise!! I played a game of Freecell, and there was a brand new ad that I'd never seen before. I wonder where that came from? I had lost a whole day's work so that Microsoft could upload a bunch of new ad crapware to my computer.

Tuesday's crapware attacks were somewhat disastrous for me personally, since it was Christmas eve and I needed to get some things done, which I was prevented from doing. You can imagine how totally pissed I am that some Microsoft jackass thinks he's so important that updating his crapware ads is more important than me getting my job done. By the way, to paraphrase Boris Johnson, I would rather be dead in a ditch than click on one of those ads.

On this and other support forums, I sometimes see a "Windows running slow" report that gets blamed on a virus. Well, maybe some of them are from a virus, but I'd bet that 90% of them are from Microsoft crapware update attacks. In fact, Microsoft may purposely be making crapware attacks look like viruses, so that people won't know what's really going on.

This is a nightmare. Does anyone know what I can do about this?

Thank you for your time.

Configuration:
Dell Inspiron 5570, Memory: 24 GB
Processor: Intel Core i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz[Cores 4] [Logical/Core 2]
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Last update: Feature update to Windows 10, version 1909, installed on 12/21.
OS Build: 18363.476

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Brand new laptop won't load Windows after 'bloatware' removal

Thanks for your replies.
I didn't remove ANY of those programs - it was more the Windows 10 bloatware that I got rid of.

I've had a look at how to do a factory restore but can't see how to do it if you can't log in to Windows. Does anyone have a suggestion?

 

Windows Updated(16299.309).KB4088776 Restart is required to complete.


Hi dalchina. Good news, I followed your suggestion and reinstalled the update and now it appears as "installed correctly" *Biggrin Maybe it was not necessary to run the Windows Update Troubleshooter or maybe if necessary. But using it I do not think it could have worsened something. The installation was very fast, unlike the first time it showed step 1 and step 2 completed.

Thanks for the suggestions and for the time to respond Best regards.


And thanks for the tip of that program, I'll have it on my list.

 

Programs not working


In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.