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Latest update done, and can no longer access internet
I've been having nothing but bad experiences with Windows updates lately....
About a month ago, I did an update and it completely replaced my OS with a new version causing my default settings to change, eliminating some of my programs and causing many problems for me to fix, which took me awhile to do. With these all done, I decided last Saturday (Jan. 13th) being past the second Tuesday of the week, I would do another update which shouldn't involve the replacing of my entire OS because I heard the next one of those wouldn't be until April. Well, it happened anyway.
After waiting several hours for the download of the updates and then even longer for it all to install, my computer is now in even worse shape. After resetting my default programs again and making other re-adjustments, I tried going online. I was able to connect to Wi-fi, but not able to go to any websites at all. I would type in the address and press "enter", and then nothing would happen would several minutes until I get a message saying something like, "Timed out", or "The webpage cannot be reached".
I then scanned with ADWcleaner and then Malwarebytes to see if anything bad had been installed on my laptop. Nothing was found.
So what can I do now? And why was my entire OS replaced with a new version again so soon? Isn't that supposed to happen like every 6 months or so? The last time was a disaster, so I was going to avoid doing that again, and now it happened again just a month later with even worse results. So again, what should I do at this point?
FWIW, I believe one of the updates in the list was for version 1703, which seems to be the version I now have. What I don't understand is how it could be a "replacement" version since it came out in April of 2017. Doesn't make sense. This update was just done last Saturday, and the previous update was about a month prior to that.
Last edited by Delly10; 18 Jan 2018 at 15:48.