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There are 3 really good but completely separate points in that paragraph:
- Hard forced shutdowns are not good for Windows
- Sometimes you have no choice
- Sooner or latter you'll have to address the issues causing it.
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I had little problem with 2 AU upgrade-in-place installations, but when after upgrading my wife's laptop, switching between users (both local admin accounts) would hang up - black screen. Twice it eventually woke up enough after 10-15 minutes to present the lock screen, and one of those times it eventually got to the login screen (but would not accept the password). The only way out was usually 2 forced shutdowns - one to get out of the black screen following the request to switch, and another because we could not get beyond the lock screen after the 1st reboot.
Yesterday I did a clean reinstall and now there are no apparent problems.
Prior to Windows 10 I had never done a Windows install - clean or otherwise - and never considered it a necessary part of my knowledge base. Since my first upgrade-in-place to Win 10 a little over a year ago I've had to do 5 of them (on 3 computers). Installation of Windows is tedious, and configuring the settings afterwards is irritating. But the reinstallation of the 25 or so software packages on 2 of the PCs is a real pain!
I don't expect and upgrade-in-place process to be error free. In fact, I don't know how it can be expected to work at all! But to foist this error-prone process on a non-technical user community and expect them cope by doing clean reinstalls is absurd.