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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Another Windows 10 upgrade another dead PC
----------------------------------------I roll it back it's working a treat booting from Acronis ... again Microsoft attack it overnight with a so called update Please select your keyboard layout aarrrgghh Dear Microsoft Life is too short to be bypassing problems that you have introduced to my number crunchers. The last few months of upgrades have been appalling. Start Buttons not working without a rummage around in Regedit. Nvidia Drivers removed for no good reason and now the dead pc in the morning problem. I am easily pleased all you have to do is keep my pc working like it was yesterday Best Regards Dave  |
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1296 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Sorry to hear you had problems. Which update broke your computer?
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ca05065
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 4, 2007 Post Count: 325 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My PC updated from Windows 10 1703 to 1709 using the standard Windows Update procedure in October.
The problems I noticed were: keyboard was changed from UK to US date formats became US not UK all tile information from the start menu have been replaced by non-sense some programs disappeared from the start menu e.g. passwordsafe all programs e.g. firefox, chrome, ccleaner, Iobit suite have reverted to 'first execution' i.e. they lost all information e.g. bookmarks, usernames, never ask for password. shortcut links on the desktop pointing to personal '.BAT' files disappeared my existing user 'cxxxxx' has had a new set of folders created as 'home folders' under name 'cxxxxx.computername' (name changed for privacy) and everything wants to default to using the new folders! The 'start button' and search box did not always work so I had to revert to control-alt-delete to allow a restart. The icons in the 'show hidden icons' section of the task bar became more and more fuzzy as the day progressed and were almost unrecognisable. After struggling through until early January in the hope that a subsequent Windows update would correct the problem, I restored the C: drive from a Macrium Reflect (free version) image backup. Windows Update did updates to 1703 and then the upgrade to 1709. This time it worked successfully. I then had to repeat program updates I had done since October. Most of my data was already current on my D: drive but I had to recover a few data files from the current Macrium Reflect image backup. |
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mmonnin
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Jul 20, 2016 Post Count: 148 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Get Win10 Pro and stop the auto updates/reboots.
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pcwr
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Sep 17, 2005 Post Count: 10903 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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There are also some reported reboot problems at the moment due to Intel security patches.
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Get Win10 Pro and stop the auto updates/reboots. +1 Had similar problems with Developer edition of WIn10...they f... up with nVidia drivers without OpenCL, which in turn got my computer restart while doing OpenCL WUs on SETi@home. Wrote to them how stupid they are & disabled the auto-update of drivers...now they can't update that, but still on Developer edition update some things! But on other instance, they can't update without me. Sometimes I think they are like:  over there!  |
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