Windows 10: new build totally screwed pc

I am using build 1709 on Windows 10 Pro. Under settings on the update screen did you click on the button for advanced options?

 

Yes mate,. but its not there, must be a Pro thing. I have Home. I mentioned about services, windows update, stop, which I did. It seems 1709 restarted it and installed on my laptop when I was elsewhere. But, as it seems to be ok, I'll leave it. I double checked services/windows update and it was indeed - running! Win 10 seems to be the most unfriendly version yet. I think MS have something wrong in Bills head, WE should control our machines, not MS.

 

+1 I cannot agree more!

 

Note with Pro you can also set updates to Notify you, so you can choose when (and perhaps whether) to process them.

MS's concept is clearly to deliver ongoing updates seamlessly in the background (except they forgot about unexpected restarts!!!) -which will work for a good number of people.. but for those for whom it doesn't whether that be for incompatibility, or because their Windows is corrupted in some fashion, or because of something the user has done, it's an absolute pain.

 

I put my laptop on yesterday morning then went off to make a cuppa tea. Came back and it was installing 1709. (after telling it to wait 3 weeks). So I thought, leave it, and went out. When I came in it had finished and was sitting on a perfectly preserved desktop. It has been in 24 hours without any problems except slower load up of web content. Conclusion: the laptop is not nvidia. The pc is. 1709 must have clashed somehow with nvidia on my pc and produced the visual screw up's. The pc is still in the shop, they are running tests and scans and inverting a HDD I put in upside down (!!!!). Hopefully it will be back today. It will have 1709 in it but installed under a more expert supervision, hopefully.

Just spoken to shop. They think nvidia took one look at W1709 and said I dont like you!! Anyway, a 1709 patch came yesterday, so I put that in as well. When I told it to revert, thats when the files went missing. They also recommended that I bin Kaspersky as it 'allowed' bugs to enter and reside in pc'. They are installing full ver AVG.

 

To prevent automatic download & installation of Windows Updates, including new builds such as the FCU do the following:

1) Download Windows Update MiniTool
2) Go into user interface, on the left hand side you will see 'Automatic Updates', change from 'automatically' to 'Notification mode'

After doing the above, whenever there are updates, you will get a toaster notification that there are updates to install. When you go into Windows Updates, it will show you the updates available to install & you can click 'install now' If there is one you don't want to install, run the MiniTool & check for updates. When the one that you don't want to install appears in the list, put a check mark beside it & click on the option to hide it. Then, if you go back and re-run Windows Update, that update will not appear again.

 

thanks athan, I did that. I noticed two .exe files x64 and x86, which do I use, or both. There were several drivers in a list, incl canon (printer). I told it notification mode, - do I just leave it now, as there does not seem to be a 'start' button.

haha! just realised what you mean by 'toaster' notification - we call it pop ups!!

 

Use the install version that corresponds to your computer's architecture - 64 or 32 bit.

Once you activate 'notification' mode, Windows will throw out a 'pop-up' *Tongue to notify you of updates that are available. Go into 'Windows Update' in 'Settings' & check them out. If there is nothing you don't want, just click 'download'. It will do that & install BUT if there is something you don't want, go into Windows Update MiniTool program & check for updates. When it finishes, put a checkmark beside the one you don't want & choose 'Hide' then choose 'Select All' for the ones you do want installed. Just beware, the program may, in the future, show the update you hide previous so you might have to rehide it again - that's been my experience anyway, YMMV - probably a bug. They haven't come out with a new version since last December. *Wink