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Windows 10 automatic update "broke" wifi?
On the day Windows 10 was officially launched my Precision M3800 was "upgraded" from 8.1 and I've had no significant problems... until a few minutes ago.
I suddenly lost internet connection and the troubleshooter couldn't help, so I shut down via the button in Start8 (I can't be doing with tabletty things).
I noticed that the power button stayed lit up, which it shouldn't do, so eventually I held it down and the laptop booted up to (something like) "Windows update, do not turn off your computer, 100%". It stayed like that for some moments and then reverted back to the beginning and showed the percent progress up to 100% and booted up.
I had to get the troubleshooter to enable my wifi adapter (not alarming, as many laptops I've had have been occasionally unreliable in connecting on boot-up) and resumed what I was doing - and then the internet went down again, saying I have no connections available.
I shut down and restarted again and my usual connection showed "limited" so I chose the newer one (hope you know what I mean, the old one is 24 and the newer one is 5), which connected as limited at first and then normal.
Google has found me instances of older wifi being "broken" by the initial upgrade to Windows 10, but this was just an update, and my laptop is relatively new hardware.
Have others had problems with this latest update?
Can automatic updates be disabled in Windows 10? I understood not, and there's no Windows Update section in Control Panel. I desperately need this laptop not to shut down without warning, and certainly not to cut off my internet connection without warning
(Sorry this has taken a lot of words, but I wanted you to know more-or-less exactly what happened.)