Fall Creators Update Causing Issues

Thanks for the background. I've seen, as I'm sure others have seen, all kinds of crazy number on those install panels. Stuck at downloading, preparing to install or even installing. If it didn't say failed in the updates history then I assume it is good to go.

Next your install taking a long time. Obviously this has something to do with your rig but it too can't be totally explained away by this one answer. My wife has a Asus i5, lots of memory and a huge amount of free space. We sit on an internet service well over 100Mbps and it took almost five hours.

Yes if you revert you can try again. To control this once you've revert back set your connection to be metered. As a metered connection it won't just download. Actually this is way to get some control over updates in general. You can check out your device and back sure things are back to normal.

Rather than downloading 1709 repeatedly use the Media Creation tool to create a USB thumb drive. When you want to try next, insert key, navigate to setup and double click. There is a BIOS setting to adjust. I also recommend you make a back up of your data. The process itself is explained in the tutorial.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade


Ken

You want the next one down. "Go back to the previous version....."

The process is the same whether you update or use key. Key just means you download once. It is said that is goes faster. I've never tested with stop watch but I do believe it is quicker. (the download seems to run smoother.)

What ever you are comfortable with just no resets, just "Go back"

Sorry. No first you go back. Then when you want to try again you use the media creation tool to create a USB key.

This key is multi purpose. If you boot from it you can clean install or use some basic tools to "Fix" windows. Handy is an emergency.

If you navigate to key and double click setup then it does a repair / upgrade. If the version you are running is same as key it repairs, if the version you repairing is older it upgrades.

I always recommend in very loud font, do a Back Up. This is an OS upgrade.

Yes you can do that.

Having the key means you download once, maybe it doesn't work again, and you have bootable media for emergencies.

Caledon Ken said:

Yes you can do that.

Having the key means you download once, maybe it doesn't work again, and you have bootable media for emergencies.

Hi Ken, before I reverted back, I wanted to do a little more research into this (Googled it), and I found a post on another forum where this guy was having the same issue as me. There was a forum member who issued him this advice:



This lets you choose options in a 'Local Group Policy Editor' window. I followed these instructions, and did a quick shutdown and restart, because if it didn't work on a quick shutdown and power button startup, it definitely wouldn't work in a long one, which is when my issue always occurs.

Well, it didn't work as planned, and Windows chose another lockscreen/logon screen image for me, other than the other wrong image it's been choosing (it selected a second wrong image, so it was actually worse lol). I noticed also that by going into Windows' settings to change the lockscreen, the option was grayed out, hence the actual result of these directions, if you think about it (it disables the option to choose one, even manually). I then went back in and disabled it so I could manually choose my own image again.

However, another option in the 'Local Group Policy Editor' window caught my eye, and I said to myself, this just might work. It's the one highlighted below:



So by choosing to force a specific default lockscreen and logon image, it lets you insert the targeted path in Windows to the image. So I then searched Google images for the exact lockscreen image I had chose in my system settings, before I had this issue (the one that SHOULD be displaying). It's the one looking out of a small airplane, showing a red airplane wing in the foreground, and the blue ocean down below. I was able to locate a large, high-resolution copy of this image, so I saved it to a specific folder in my computer. I then copied the path of the image, and inserted it in the edit section of the option you see highlighted above (right click, then choose 'edit' to proceed).

I performed a quick shutdown, and powerup again, and the image appeared. However, that doesn't solve the issue right away since this glitch only happens after a long shutdown. The next morning when I powered-up my computer after several hours of it being off, not only did the proper image appear, but my computer booted up very quickly (no pausing, or 'Please Wait' screen or anything). It booted up just as normal, before the Fall Creators Update changed things. This apparently fixed it, or I should say it's a perfect work-around to this glitch.

So evidently, the slow startup occurring after selecting to proceed using Windows instead of System Restore (prior to the lockscreen/logon screen), is related to Windows trying to process this glitch of choosing between the selected/desired lockscreen image in your settings, and the one that it decides to revert to by itself. By forcing a new and different pathway to a desired lockscreen/logon image, bypasses the original process, and it goes right to it.

I will continue to monitor this situation, since I just implemented this current work-around solution. But I can almost bet to say with full certainty, that it's going to continue to work, because since the last big Windows update, this glitch has happened EVERY single time like clockwork after a long shutdown, and this time it did not. I'll let you know in a couple of more days if this continues to work. If so, then you can offer my situation as a work-around solution to this issue, for anyone else who experiences it, as well.

Thanks again for all of your help, I actually learned a lot from the things you gave me, especially if I ever need to reinstall/repair Windows, or revert back to an earlier version. There were a lot of things about that which I didn't know, but now I do.

~FGN

Excellent. Great information and good detail. Thanks for sharing.