After the recent W10 upgrade, my Dragon Naturally Speaking voice to text software quit working. Now I get the message “the microphone is not responding”
I have Avast on my PC.
I updated to 1803.
I have had no problems.
For those with Win10 who might be experiencing this issue:
“Windows 10 1803 Upgrade Issues - The Black Desktop Of Death And How To Fix It”
http://www.thecomputercellar.com/windows-10-1803-upgrade-issues-the-black-desktop-of-death-and-how-to-fix-it
I just updated our Windows 10 machine running Avast! without any problems.
I ended up with an F drive on my computer that was supposed to be invisible and kept getting a message that it was low on space. I found instructions on how to make it invisible and it’s apparently one of the problems with this update.
Is your Win 10 machine running just fine, and doing everything as well as you expect it to, and you have good antivirus and antispyware protection, outside of Windows own efforts?
Then quit allowing Win 10 updates; you likely do not need them as they “fix” nothing that concerns you.
And yes you can stop Win 10 updates.
No matter how your system connects to the Internet, whether by a cable to a modem or router, or by Wifi somehow, you can set a setting for that specific connection - the specific “network” connection you use - to “metered”, which says to Windows you pay for that connection by some method that charges you by the minute or hour. It does not matter if that is true or not, you can set it that way.
Believing you must pay for your Internet connection time, (once your connection is set to “metered”), and knowing not how long the Win 10 update will take, the Win 10 update process is forced to stop and ask you if it is ok to run the update.
I have found it does not ask until after I have an activated working Internet connection, and once I decline the update, it does not ask again until I have either shut off that connection and then reconnected it, or have shut down the machine and then started it back up, and made an active Internet connection again.
In the Feedback and Settings page under Privacy Settings you can now delete the diagnostic data your device has sent to Microsoft. You can also view this diagnostic data using the Diagnostic Data Viewer app.
My two windows 10 computers updated with no problem. I only use the anti-virus that windows 10 comes with.
Would you do a clean install of Windows 10 by now. Via the free USB flash drive download that Microsoft provides?
https://tinyurl.com/yd9lhvgo — a Microsoft site
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10startfresh
Since the update, Windows blanks the screen randomly then resets it