Windows 10: How do non-tech people cope with Windows 10’s forced updates?

I have used computers since 1990 and, because I am interested, I have also learned how to fix things that go wrong. I have used Windows from 3.1 through to Windows 10 and it is only Windows 10 that forces updates onto users computers. For myself and most tech-savvy people this is not a problem but, over the last 5 years, since Win 10 came out, I have been asked by several non-tech people if I can fix their PCs/Laptops that have become very slow to boot up and to respond afterwards.

In many cases these people are casual users who just want to spend 10 to 15 minutes doing emails or some browsing and then shut down their computer. This is OK until Windows update wants to install updates and the PC is not left switched on for long enough for them to download updates, never mind install them. The next time the PC is switched on W10 keeps trying to download and install updates which never get finished. Over time the update queue builds up slowing the PC down. I usually find there is a queue of updates that it takes me 2 hours just to get Windows up-to-date and the computer becomes fast again.

How many non-tech people who only use their Win 10 computers for short periods find their machines slowing down and give up using them? I know of two non-tech people who each paid 400 for a laptop and decided to stop using it after about 9 months because it became unusable. I had shown both these people how to install Windows updates to prevent the problem but (in my experience) non-tech people havent got the interest to retain the learning and they give up rather than continue to struggle. Ill bet there are a lot of Win 10 laptops lying unused on shelves out there across the world.

Ill bet this never happened with previous versions of Windows.

Has anyone else found this with PCs that are not used very much?

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