[fireman15]

This is just a short excerpt from the article. It was originally published 3 weeks ago. Microsoft has started pushing this latest Windows 10 update again, which screwed up my laptop yesterday. Fortunately after several hours I was able to get it back up again.

First the laptop stopped communicating with my network printer and scanner. While I was trying to delete and install new drivers when things went from bad to worse. A system restore to a time before the 3 day old update caused the computer to no longer boot. This isn't one of the issues mentioned in the article. As Microsoft tries to fix issues with this one more problems keep appearing. It is like they are playing a game of Wack-a-mole.

If this update starts causing unusual behavior… before you do a system restore to try and correct problems, make sure you have recovery media with all of your system files backed up on it. Thank you Microsoft for wasting several hours of my time and causing a great deal of anxiety.

The funniest thing that I read while trying to fix the problems caused by the update was an article saying that if you wanted to avoid the problems caused by updates... make sure that you have your computer set up to take them... as if most users still have the option to turn off automatic updates. What a laugh!

[Red Badger]

UPDATE = Remove old bugs, install new bugs..................

[Paladin2]

Use Linux with a couple of VirtualBox Win10 VMs [reloading is trivial with a spare clone]?

[I want the USA back]

They still haven’t got it quite right!

[SkyDancer]

Stay with Windows 7 and you won’t have problems.

[mountainlion]

My cure for windows 8 is MAC!!

[butlerweave]

Windows 10 October 2018 Update problems: how to fix them

Install Linux ,any Linux ,there are tons of different ones ,LOL

[Purdue77]

Since moving from W8 to W10 the only current issues I have on a four-year old 4GB machine is that W10 seems to take up a lot of RAM. Between W10 and McAfee I have less than 30% of RAM available. And, W10 seems to spend too much time conversing with my hard drive. (I just ordered another 16GB RAM.) I am only using 10% of my 1TB drive for storage. But, I get a lot of “program not responding” messages while I wait for something to happen.

[catnipman]

windows 10 updates are relatively easy to disable:

1. disable the windows update service with the service manager

2. if it exists, uninstall the update helper program and/or disable the update helper service with the service manager

3. there are several update helper tasks that are easy to disable with task manager, which mostly is done to eliminate annoying screen displays and messages about updating ...

the ONLY way to achieve stability on a Windows 10 system is to disable all vestiges of the update subsystem as soon as you buy your system and NEVER update it again ... protect yourself from viruses by establishing a Limited User account in addition to an Administrator account and do all of your work on the Limited User account and only use an Administrator account for system maintenance activities like adding, removing and updating software and printers and the like from an Administrator account.

BTW, the same advice applies to Windows 7 and Windows 8 as well ...

[trebb]

Yeah - my desktop needed a restart and was acting funny....no desktop icons and then empty icons,,,Start bar had icons but the Microsoft Edge icon was not in the hot spot....did a second restart and let it set for 10 minutes after reaching the login screen and it seems OK now.

Suppose I should fire up the laptop and see how it fares with the latest "undocumented features" Microsoft is feeding us....