Windows 10: Solved - Win 10 Anniversary Update 1607 - The Worst Ever?

I have various USB wireless receivers connected to every computer I own, plus the 20 or so we've upgraded in the corporate setting and haven't run in to a single error with them.

This happens FAR too often, but your issues are problems with YOUR system, and not the Anniversary Update. Common sense, but if it was the Update, we would all be experiencing the issue.

You could always spend more money for a closed system like OSX and still experience these issues. Again, it's common sense, but given the myriad of hardware and software combinations possible on the Windows side, it's damn near miraculous that it works as well as it does.

It certainly is possible that a person has issues on a system that aren't easy to overcome, but at the same time, it's rather ignorant to take the easy cop-out and just blame Microsoft. 99% of the time, the issues aren't their doing, but a lack of support or compatibility with something third-party.

 

I have literally no issues. Windows is running better than ever and I'm enjoying the new features the anniversary update offers. Hope you get your problems fixed.

 

I agree, Microsoft is far too often the cop out for improperly managed machines. If I had a nickel for every time someone blamed MS for an easily preventible issue that they caused, I'd be a rich man.

 

Its not that simple. i stated my issues with the AU in detail in this thread. So many prompt users participated in this discussion and i followed almost all their advices but nothing worked. Believe me its not that simple.

 

It will automatically come back. With 10Pro you can delay(4 months) it but not stop it without turning off all updates.

 

There was one piece of advice that should have been given right away but, I think, didn't show up until today: Clean install. (I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't think of it ... for you or for me!)

The upgrade-in-place is not perfect; it leaves garbage around. Some people experience no problems; other people end up with nearly dead systems. It's not Microsoft's fault - the upgrade-in-place process cannot possibly know which bits of non-Microsoft code is dependent on the underlying OS code and which is not.

The bottom line: when you have odd or unexpected errors, you made need to do a clean install.

A clean install can be a royal pain if you have lots of non-Windows products installed. (It usually takes me an hour or 2 to do the actual install and customization, the rest of the day to install and test the the important programs I need, and a week to run into all the less important things I forgot to reinstall.) But things (usually) work much better after a clean install. Consider it when you finallyhave need to upgrade.

 

Glad to hear you are back to running excellently. Keep your system up-to-date and well maintained.
The AU update will want to be re-installed, it's just a matter of time.
Keep backing up your data and I recommend system image backups.
If your Win10 you are presently running perfectly the AU update should update and run excellently the next time also.

EDIT: You might need to decide what to uninstall before the AU update is ready to be installed again. For example, your Office program; for whatever reason it was a problem. Not know what Office program you have, we can't try to figure it out even if it's possible.

 

I'm so glad that shobhitk has sorted himself out with last November's version of Windows 10, and he is a happy bunnikins - I hope it serves his largely mystery hardware setup well for years to come.

Windows 10 caters for almost everybody, it seems.

 

It's enough to make you want to glug down the contents of the Jug of Issek, ain't it? Nice summation, Fafhrd!
--Ed--

 

I could be misreading your tone, but I think you are being a bit unfair in your evaluation. The average Windows user would not expect the problems shobhitk had, and, I suspect, would not have been as capable of dealing with them. Most non-techie users have no idea whether they are using obsolete hardware. If Windows lets them upgrade, why should they not expect the result to work well? And how would the majority of users - those not reading these forums - ever expect that the solution of choice for problem following an upgrade is a clean reinstall? That's something for the IT department, not the average user.

I suspect most of the regulars on this forum really enjoy rooting around under the covers of Windows, but I suspect most users wouldn't even know if they had a wireless adapter, let alone know whether their driver was current.

Shobhitk at least had the sense to turn to this forum for help. Starting off with a rant may not have been the best move, but he eventually settled down and tried solving the problem. Hopefully he'll turn to this forum again when he finally has to upgrade because he has not seen the last of this problem.

 

@pokeefe0001 “The average Windows user would not expect the problems shobhitk had, and, I suspect, would not have been as capable of dealing with them. Most non-techie users have no idea whether they are using obsolete hardware. If Windows lets them upgrade, why should they not expect the result to work well?” Very well said.

 

I agree with every word you said. Currently i dont have that much time to do a clean install. But yes that is the ultimate solution, atleast i hope so!

So nice of you pokeefe *Smile

Well this thread witnessed differnet levels and classes of ranting...lol..let it be pokeefe.

 

Issek did not just die on the rack, but broke seven racks before expiring on the eighth, and even then he broke loose and broke the thick brass band of office from around his torturer’s neck and fashioned it into a beautiful symbol of the Jug before his spirit departed.

I know how he must have felt!

 

I guess this thread has been marked as Solved by the mods.

It has to be kept in mind that the problems themselves did not get cured. I had to simply switch to the older build for getting things to work. So if you ask me whether the things are back to normal, then i would say yes, but if you ask me whether the issues were resolved, then i would say no.

But yes if you look at it from the perspective of the OP (ie. me), then you may say that the issue is closed for the time being *Smile

 

Guys good news. I Clean Installed the AU and the system is running perfectly! No hardware errors and no boot errors. Everything is fast and zippy....Simply Perfect!