Windows 10: System unusable after "successful" 1511 (1115, 1511, whatever) upgrade

Be kind, I'm more than a little stressed at the moment...
I did a stupid thing. When I upgraded all 5 computers here to Windows 10 several months ago, it went SO WELL I figured doing the November upgrade yesterday would be a snap. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Ran the Microsoft thing, got the ISO, put it on the flash drive, did the upgrade. It churned, and did it's thing and EVENTUALLY I got a blue screen where it said something about "apps". Waited. It'd periodically change and EVENTUALLY I got the screen about being back in a moment or just a moment or some such. Where it sat... After an hour or so I figured it was doing SOMETHING very slowly and decided I'd leave it for the night. Went to bed.

This morning, SAME screen still there. Figured it was having a problem and pressed a key on the keyboard. Blue screen disappeared and I was in the system. Except the system is now UNUSABLE.

I have a constant mouse pointer with blue circle indicating busy. I can RUN the Task Manager and it shows between 18 and 30% busy (depending on which time I reboot) but it never updates, and hitting "cpu" doesn't update and show me WHO'S using the cpu. Scrolling down, EVERYBODY is 0. wsappx is running, but I can't kill either the one service that it shows OR the task. I have no idea if that's the culprit.

I can't even shut the thing down clean... I can open the menu, I can hit power, but when I tell it to shut down it just sits there.

I've lost BOTH RAID 0 arrays - in the boot it says they've both failed so those 4 disks are unplugged. All that's in is the SSD it boots from and at LEAST half the time it won't boot. I get the "Recovery" screen and troubleshooting finds NOTHING...

I've tried plugging the flash drive back in, but it doesn't even get seen at this point, so I can't even retry the upgrade...

WTF did this thing do, and HOW DO I FIX IT? (and please make it simple and not of the "blow it all away and start over" variety)...

:)

 

Edge restore Session

Seconded, thirded, whatever, I've had this problem on 3 different Win10 installs, all since the November (1511) "upgrade"...

 

Windows 10 Won't Sleep or Shutdown

Sorry, I tried (several times), but it did NOT work. Build 1511 is just broken. Such issues are mentioned all over Microsoft forum. Please fix this ASAP.

This bug could kill my laptop due to the inevitable forced shutdowns!

 

Hi GracieAllen,

I see you can get to the recovery screen and troubleshooting. Can you get as far as Advanced Options and can you try a System Restore?

 

At the MOMENT, the system is booting, so it hasn't been going into the recovery screen.

How do I force it into the recovery screen before it boots?
If I run a system restore, isn't it just going to restore to the last restore point? Which would be the totally screwed up thing the upgrade created the first time (at least I PRESUME MS wouldn't have their software do something this ludicrous without creating a restore point, right?)

At the MOMENT, I"m in Windows 10, but I can't do ANYTHING. I can't even get the task manager to run. Again, just a mouse cursor with the non-spinning blue circle, which I'm guessing means the thing is so locked up can't even spin.. Last time I WAS able to get task manager to run it showed the cpu being 72% busy, and it stayed busy indefinitely. I have NO idea what it's doing. I no longer SEE a wsapp(x?) process, but something has this box totally <bleeped> up.

 

GracieAllen,
Can you actually shut down the computer ? ( I know you said "when I tell it to shut down it just sits there.")
If yes, you can, then please do so.
Then restart the computer.
Does it go to the sign in screen ?
If yes, don't sign in.

Please post back your answers before I know if I can go on or not.
Thank you.

 

I MAY have accidentally gotten SOMEWHERE... Crashed box again - can't even get any of the shutdown options to show up. Previously, when I looked at processes, there were 4 or 5 associated with windows search. This time, went in and booted into safe mode, set windows search to disabled. TRIED to run the upgrade from safe mode, which worked fine, but of course, the upgrade won't run from there.

Booted back into Windows and AT THE MOMENT, it's acting normal. No more NON-SPINNING blue circle on the cursor.

BTW: it appears the the MS upgrade does NOT create a restore point. At least when I tried from the recovery screen, it SAID I HAD NO RESTORE POINTS TO USE...

Is there a way to tell if this POS actually, completely, correctly installed and cleaned up after itself? I can run winver and see that it SAYS Version 1511 (OS Build 10586.14) but I don't trust that it's actually installed correctly.

Do I RERUN this upgrade and hope it actually provides a different outcome this time?

 

Winver has confirmed you have the most current version.

Whether the system is running properly is another question.
According to what you said, it is running A-OK.

I would recommend that you create a restore point now.

 

RE : Do I RERUN this upgrade and hope it actually provides a different outcome this time?

No. Run the Win 10 just installed and find out if it is OK first.

 

Great news! You have the latest version. I agree with @davidhk that you should create a restore point. Other things to do now would be run sfc /scannow in an elevated command prompt to make sure all your system files are ok.

If it runs well over the next few hours you could also create a system image backup.

 

GracieAllen,
Maybe this will make you feel better about the new Win 10 You had just installed.
Your winver confirms that you have ver 10.0.10586.14.

When we first installed 10586 which took us quite some time, we only got version 10.0.10586.0
Then we needed to install a Windows update to get 10.0.10586.3
Then we needed to install another Windows Update and that got us 10.0.10586.11
Then we needed to install another Windows update to get us 10.0.10586.14.
See what I am getting at ?

What happened to your situation was, and it's my speculation only, that the system WAS installing ok. It was in the process of installing those Windows updates in order to bring you up to date with the current version.
That was why it took apparently too long to your liking.

I am confident to say your Win 10 will run properly. And I am sticking my neck for that..... as usual.

 

Hi,

Ran into a similar scenario updating a laptop of a friend of mine. At some point late at night I decided to go to bed and just leave it do what it was doing.
Next day I looked and found it actually hadn't done much at all, the laptop just had gone into sleep mode minutes after me going to bed apparently.

Bottom line being, be patient and let it do whatever it does. On some computers it just seems to take an awful lot of time but don't reboot or interrupt the process. It will get there eventually.

Cheers, *Wink

 

Thanks for the replies...

I can boot the system, and it runs - how well I'm not sure, although with Windows Search disabled it runs better. Unfortunately, this is a desktop that's set up to boot straight into the desktop, so there's no "not logging in"...

BUT, being impatient and getting really tired of wasting hours (just over 24 at this point) I put the ISO on a DVD and redid the update. AND, it went RELATIVELY good at first, although it did the well-known "hang" at 32% and 6% whatever. That took just over 12 MINUTES to end. Then it continued (about 15 seconds before I was going to give up and hit the power switch). And went through and got through all the "apps" screen and the "we've got new features" crap and we're RIGHT BACK TO THE "We'll be ready soon" where it's now been sitting for 21 MINUTES.... This is the point it hit LAST NIGHT where I let it sit ALL NIGHT and it was still in the same place this morning.......

Does anybody HAVE ANY IDEA what this $%^&* is doing? And whether or not I can END THIS and have a functional system?

I"ve read enough screaming rants today about what a totally piss-poor job Microsoft did on this thing that I don't figure I need to start screaming too, but I definitely consider this a lesson learned. If you DON'T have DAYS to waste trying to get a system working again, DON'T INSTALL THESE THINGS UNTIL MS HAS HAD MONTHS TO FIX at least the MAJORITY of major screw ups in every version of anything they release. Being a beta tester gets old when they TELL you you're one, but expecting actual, functional, production-ready software and getting this kind of kludgy crap is absolutely infuriating.

Anyhow, thanks for the help, and again, can ANYBODY tell me when I can kill this idiotic page and the likelihood of having a FULLY FUNCTIONAL system?

 

OK, another loop through the shut down system, boot into safe mode, disable windows search, reboot, and I'm back to a HOPEFULLY functional system... It doesn't APPEAR to be doing anything undesirable.

I think I'll leave it alone and see what happens when I actually try to do work......

 

Well, it worked ok last night. No bizarre, huge, constant 60 - 70% cpu loads...

This morning, I rebooted it and it immediately started the same garbage again... I can't see WHAT the load is 'cause the Task Manager can't even update. I can't even type from the keyboard - it never gets through. I can't even shut down 'cause the Shut down can't display the shutdown options.

Unfortunately, since I've got windows search disabled, I don't even know what's causing the load at this point......

I CAN see that about 50% of the time, when I have to hit the reset to reboot the thing, it doesn't boot - it displays the "American Megatrends" logo on a blank screen and hangs there. I have to hit the reset button again...

Also, when I DO get the task manager to run, I have a LOT of duplicate processes - like 3 COM surrogate processes. There's also something called "appmodel(2)" that I don't recall seeing before. Two instances of Client Server Runtime Process, and a huge number o Service Host: Local Service or Local System processes. Not sure if any of these are the problem, but I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING SOME OF THESE BEFORE...

Anybody have any thoughts about what may be happening THIS time?