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

Hi GracieAllen, Sorry you have the problems back again - it looked so promising yesterday!

Multiple instances of the Service Host processes are quite normal. I'm not sure what to suggest but I feel that if possible you should leave the computer on (set "put computer to sleep" to never) and leave it connected to the internet overnight and let it sort itself out. Often things like disk defragmentation, search indexing, scheduled maintenance + other tasks will go on in the background and if these are all trying to complete when you reboot the machine it will tie itself up for a while.

From one of your earlier posts I think you are using a local account rather than signing in to a Microsoft account. There may be some benefits to signing in especially if you want to synchronise settings between multiple computers but I leave that up to you.

 

Well, it's fixed... I don't have time to mess with a box that's this screwed up and unreliable. So, blew it away and started over. I'll be reinstalling for at least a day and probably waste a half day making Windows 10 productive (I fervently wish MS hadn't dumbed down the XP interface in favor of something for 12-year-olds), but at least I'll generally be able to rely on the box working when I need it... Although, since I put on the 1511 version, I'm not real sure how reliable it will be, but it didn't make a lot of sense to put on the old version of W10.

Anyhow, now I'd like to find out how to remove all the bovine excrement Microsoft now clogs these things with - the store, and all the other app crap that's of absolutely no interest or use.