Windows 10 Shutting Down Randomly, Then Reporting To Microsoft.

Myself | 04-14-2018 | Captain Peter Blood

[TexasGator]

“Tell him no credit card until he sends the nude pictures of Nancy Pelosi.”

I gave him my credit card and now I have a nude screen-saver of Hillary I can’t remove.

[Newbomb Turk]

People here at FR hate Apple but I've been running two MAC's for 9 years with zero issues. When I start one, it just works. Doesn't ask me a thousand questions or require a ton of downloads or anti virus software.

I use Microsoft based systems for my CNCmachine though. Windows sucks.

[Noumenon]

Are you logged in?

[Pontiac]

Tell him no credit card until he sends the nude pictures of Nancy Pelosi.

Give him the email address of the Nigerian Prince that needs a bank account number to transfer his millions out of the country.

[Right Wing Assault]

I had a laptop that got very hot and then shut down. The heat sink was clogged up with dust. If yours gets hot, you can carefully blow some canned air into the cooling slots and see if anything comes out. Don't use high pressure air as it will spin your cooling fan very fast and it might not like that.

[Fhios]

You can do a clean reinstall while all your data is saved.

I have no problem with this currently, but the last 3 times over 5 years I’ve had it it’s always been hardware related. Overheating primarily.

Get a maintenance program and monitor your temperatures. Inspect all your fan vents .... your bottom vents particularly if you’re on a desktop. Run with the lid off and watch the fans.

It’s been power supply, clogged vents, overheating graphics card, AMD cpu overheating.

Check system log files (hard to find) and if you’ve added any hardware recently I would start there.

[yesthatjallen]

Didn't happen to me.

A couple days ago I got the insistent interruption message 'down loads were ready to install. do you want to install now?'

I saved everything and installed updates.

Everything seems normal on my end.

[dragnet2]

[Kirkwood]

Sounds like a flaky power supply. If you really think it is a bad update, you can go to the control panel and find all the windows updates under the program menu. Then uninstall the most recent one and see if it fixes the problem.

[JoSixChip]

A few weeks ago, that happened to my work machine about tree times over a week and a half period. It has not done it since. There is a lot of security on my work computer because I have serious IP that is closely guarded. So I assume the blue screen was not a security threat and just more windows 10 BS.

[chrisser]

Almost every time Microsoft updates Windows 10, it screws up my computer and I have to wait for them to fix it

I can't help but think that, if MS spent less time pushing useless apps without asking and mining our computers for information, and more time focusing on making their operating system reliable, many more people would be happy with Windows 10.

I run a small IT dept for a small clinic system. Windows 7 had it's issues, but it was comparatively reliable and stable. 10 has been a multi-year nightmare to support that just seems to get worse. We'll eventually have to get WSUS and/or a patch management system, or we'll move to remote desktop and use linux for the endpoints. At this point, since we get a nonprofit discount on remote desktop licenses, I'm leaning towards ridding ourselves of Win 10 except for laptops. We spend way too much time babysitting Windows 10 machines just so our staff can get some work done. Just as we get everything stable, MS pushes another major update and changes everything and the cycle repeats.

I've supported Windows since 3.0 and while I've had my issues with MS's bloated code, I've never gotten to the point before where I was actively working on getting rid of Windows desktops, but I'm there now.

[Cold Heart]

I found a site (Akamai)that gives counts of cyber attacks. State of Virginia has more than China.
Anyhow the site says 15% above normal world wide

[RBStealth]

maybe your abacus is interfering; unplug the abacus,
then reload Win 10;

[Cold Heart]

There is another FR post, “Russian Trolls....” Pentagon says Russian disinformation trolls are up 2000%

[ZULU]

Hate it too.
It’s intrusive and destructive.
Planning to learn Linux

[dragnet2]

All this Microsoft update madness and now with 10 it’s force fed upon buyer. Their updates are intrusive, harmful, unneeded, interrupting and unwanted. Not a good business model in my opinion.

[dayglored]

Windows 10 Shutdowns, Reboots... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[OldArmy52]

Windows10 has been a disaster.
Late last year, the big bosses far away, mandated we get rid of W7 and install W10.
Since then, a disaster.
While W10 itself has worked, few of our work applications have worked with W10.
Our Systems Dept has been badly stressed and overworked trying to fix the many and continuing problems.
A SNAFU.

[windsorknot]

In general I don’t have any major complaints about Win10. Just completed another update. I will say that the updates are annoyingly intrusive.

[OldArmy52]

and then to add injury to insult, our bosses decided to dump our mainframe ops sys of VM/MVS (it cost money) and switch to TSO (free).\