Windows 10 Update Is Causing An Old Problem To Return!

9/7/20 | self

[TChad]

After you get the corrupted display shown in "DESKTOP SCREENSHOT," can you open a window that has readable text? I see that your taskbar still looks normal.

Is the problem only with your desktop background?

[catnipman]

“You cannot turn off the updates permanently unless you are on a pro or business version of windows 10.’

i do it all the time; you just have to disable ALL of the relevant tasks and services

the updater services and tasks are the same on home and pro W10 editions, but the shortcuts of the tools for managing them are missing from W10 Home Edition, though the tools themselves still exist ... i disable updates on W10 Home Edition all the time ...

search for and run services.msc and taskschd.msc either from the search box or from a cmd window ...

some are difficult to disable, but a tool called Wub.exe can be used to disable undiableable services; osrss has to be disabled that way ...

[Ron H.]

I did away with the required Win10 updates long ago because of all the bugs and bloated add-on bloatware by turning off a switch in the Registry. No problems to report since then, over a year ago now. Just keep my virus and internet program software up to date. Color me pleased so far.

[stylin19a]

PAR35
that was going to be my recommendation...that was oldtime how you reset to a new graphics card. oh well.

justme4now
Oh yeah, you can't deny or rollback the update forever...

maybe....MS has a windows 10 update tool that lets you hide an update indefinitely. Not sure how it helps with a cumulative update. It does work for HOME - at least it used to...not sure about with Windows 10 Version 2004 (assuming you are on that version). You can pick and choose what updates to hide.

https://windowsloop.com/hide-updates-windows-10/#tool

not sure i understand: "I had no problem in installing this current software on this windows 10 version, but I can't install the same software on the new update even though AMD says this software is correct for the new update! (Microsoft is blocking it!"

Just how is MS blocking it ?

What I have done is let "Driver Easy" https://www.drivereasy.com/download-free-version/
take care of my driver updates - one a month. I use the free version and do a manual install like the old days. - right click the *.inf file and select "Install". Downloads are slow. You can pay for the upgrade and which doesn't have a governor on the download.

I do have an AMD and an R5 with Adrenalin but, I upgraded from HOME to PRO about 01/2020 and upgraded to Win10 Version 2004 05/2020.

hope you find a solution...good luck

[Lagmeister]

Yes.

[Texaspeptoman]

I update to win10 and still cannot get the Firefox “app” installed so as to select it and it be my default browser. MS has locked me out of even the choice of having FF listed as a choice.

[Lagmeister]

Oh... I do like how mine defrags a SSD.

[gnarledmaw]

Macrosloth Parasite 10 is malware that was knowingly and willfully misrepresented to the public as a functioning operating system. The other half of the monopoly is no better. They both need to be broken into 1000 pieces.

[\/\/ayne]

OK, I update people’s bios 2-5 times a week fixing problems for many years and so far not a single issue with doing it but I understand a lot of people have trepidation. And it may not be the problem. I just like to take the easy stuff out of the way to eliminate the possibility.

[wally_bert]

It should be here tomorrow.

[9YearLurker]

That’s just a simulation of what the new Microsoft Covid vaccine is going to do within your cells.

[dayglored]

Windows 10 Update and Tech Help Request... PING!

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

Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!

[Revel]

I had a major issue where windows 10 was trying to do a major update but would fail near the end of the update every time with a “fatal error”. It went on for months. The problem is that it started doing it every single day. It would not only slow my computer way down, but my hard drive was churning nonstop for extremely long periods of time while this update downloaded and installed. It was going to destroy my hard drive. I tried every suggestion I could find to get it to install, but it would not. The only think that I could do was to do an install over. I tried that and most of desktop and installed programs disappeared. My browser profile disappeared. And my email program lost everything like it was a new install. The emails no longer showed up. So I had to revert back to old version.

After realizing that I had to stop that update from destroying my hard drive then I found a program that will disable windows update all together. And it can be switched on and off with one click. I tried a ton of stuff to stop windows update but this program was the only thing that worked.

https://www.novirusthanks.org/products/win-update-stop/

[Revel]

The program I just posted works great.

[Paladin2]

Good Plan!

[wally_bert]

At times I toyed with selling it.

Ones without an HDD were going for about 200 or so.

[Songcraft]

"Just take a tab of LSD and your graphics will make sense. 😂"

And when you do that, put this background music on, to enhance the graphics appreciation effect...

       "Psychedelic Deep Trance & Psychill Music Mix"

[Sparticus]

I am staying with laptop and desktop Win7 as long as possible.

Understandable, but I would suggest that you back up all your files to removable media on a regular basis in case you get bit by an unpatched vulnerability in Windows 7 (an ever growing list). Your chances of being taken with ransomware or something similar is more and more likely as time goes by.

[Republican Wildcat]

Ditto for me...even very old computers run much, much smoother on it than Windows 7.

[Republican Wildcat]

You may be surprised how much smoother your computer may run on Windows 10 vs. 7. You can still upgrade for free.