Windows 10: Windows Updates fail if battery is low or dead

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my nokia lumia 800 went completely dead during updating software last it showed was low battery level it wont switch on also no response to charging

My nokia 800 is completely dead during updating software last it indicated was low level battery charge it wont switch on and also no response to the charging

 

linx tablet no longer shuts down fully following recent windows 10 update, so the battery goes flat

following windows update my linx tablet fails to fully shutdown so the battery is dead next time i try to use it

 

Win10 is doing better recognizing hardware features or issues than previous versions of Windows, especially for Notebooks. I use an External USB mouse and when I plug it in Win10 automatically disables the touch pad and pops up a message it has done so.

 

Yep, MS has greatly improved Hardware support since Win7 (which was very good) ... with the release of Win8, they told OEMs that they would run the drivers through their labs and changed the Qualified Hardware badge requirements from a notation to an enforcement. This was widely accepted as a good thing for everyone ... MS, OEMs, and especially end users.

Interestingly though, I still have to set the option to turn off the touchpad when an external mouse is plugged in (AMD APU, Synaptics TP, Logitech mouse & KB).

Installing Windows is really easy now-a-days. No longer do you have to fiddle with much of anything. The hardest thing is to get users to stop doing what they used to do and let Windows do what it's capable of doing. People still want to pre-allocate and format the drive (better to let Windows write to a raw drive, then partition it afterwards) and install drivers from the OEM site (ok if Dev mgr shows a device error after installing and running Windows Update).

I am really impressed with how well device support from Microsoft works (it took me a while to let go of bad habits too *Wink.

But the Battery sense seems to be a new wrinkle and as skynet3 discovered it can 'disable' Windows Updates.