Windows 10: doing an upgrade from 1709 to 1803 and doing it all day long, now 97%

97% after starting at 9 am today and it is now 2:30 pm.
I can let it run till around 6pm, do you think it will finish?

Can I power it down and let it finish tomorrow if I restart it very early, like 6am in the morning?
We use the PC for watching TV on windows 7 with WMC in the evenings.

It is a 6 core CPU and I have 8tb free on the drives with 16gb mem and it is beating on the drive, but its not hung or anything, win10 is fully functioning as it does this feature update presentation! I honestly did not think it would take this long.

took a camera picture, its been at 97% a very long time, and it is steadily accessing one hard drive. I have 1903 on a thumbdrive which I probably should have just wiped it out and started fresh as I think it would have been done hours ago. Since my PC is activated with a link to my digital account, I should be able to do that and have it be ok.

:)

 

Upgrade to 1803, recovery to 1709. Cannot return to 1803.


When I received the upgrade to 1803, everything seemed fine for a couple of days but then I needed to scan a document and found that I could not communicate with my Epson printer/scanner. To cut a very long story short, I eventually found that turning my VPN (CyberGhost) off allowed access to the printer/scanner.
I decided to return to 1709 and that seemed to fix the problem, until the next reboot. So now I can't print or scan with the VPN active. Furthermore, Windows Update tells me my PC is up to date so I can't get back to 1803.
Neither Epson nor CyberGhost have any ideas, even though they have both been very helpful in running tests.
So here I am, asking if anyone here can suggest either, why the VPN is blocking the printer (even though the printer ip is in the VPN exceptions list) and/or why Windows Update will not restore 1803.

 

Possible to upgrade w10 Pro 1703 to 1709 instead of 1803?


Note that assuming you need to have 1709, then if you wish to not upgrade to 1803 then either
- if you have Pro you can defer this for 365 days
- or you must take special action - before 1803 starts to download- to hide the upgrade.

Further:

This could suggest:
- Windows update is broken or disabled on that PC
- MS does not deem it fit to run 1709, so never offered it
- it has been trying to upgrade to 1709 but repeatedly failing (you can check its Update History)

 

How do I roll back Windows 10 version 1803 to version 1709 after 10 days

How do I roll back Windows 10 version 1803 to version 1709 after 10 days?