Here's what some wag posted on woody's site:
I found the REAL culprit for the Windows 10 Creators Update hangup/freezes.
Turn’s out my mom’s Dell Inspiron laptop is using an internal Broadcom ...
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Here's what some wag posted on woody's site:
I found the REAL culprit for the Windows 10 Creators Update hangup/freezes.
Turn’s out my mom’s Dell Inspiron laptop is using an internal Broadcom ...
Tried that as well with no success.
I just gave up & went way back to Windows 7 (!)
PC runs a LOT faster now.
Thanks for your guidance with this,
Sometimes you have to step back to move...
Disconnected everything.
Tried every repair/restore/reboot method.
Can't even do a clean install.
It just gets stuck at a certain point.
Must be a lot of corrupted files to clean up.
CHKDSK...
I went with clean install... but it got "stuck" after 2nd restart
"It's dead, Jim."
Got caught in some sort of Twilight Zone of infinite recursion
stuck in "Just a moment" as the dots oin round & round.
None of the diagnostic tools could fix it. Couldn't...
What should I uninstall before upgrade?
I think you're right about clean install.
Not much to back up at all.
Anyway, I can't figure out OpenVPN.
Tried removing network adapters in DOS but...
Revo works great. Thanks! Used it to totally clean out PIA remnants... but that's not where the TAP adapter came from, I think it's from OpenVPN but I can't find it on my PC. I've got to figure out...
So I'm using a Bell modem (2WIRE) which I've never had any problems with for over 10 yrs. Bell tech support told me there's nothing wrong with modem & that many customers are having the same issues....
Well there goes another 5 hrs of my life I'll never get back.
Uninstalled VPN, anti-virus programs, firewalls... you name it.
Updated drivers... then eventually reset network after all else...
Many thanks for the extremely helpful information!
What does "Refresh W10 installation" actually do?
Might try it again next week after uninstalling VPN software & anti-virus program
(as some have suggested)
Would use up a lot of bandwidth on...
Thanks for the heads up. I was reading that some folks had this problem back in December after an update & there was some sort of patch for 1607. I've never had this problem before.
It took about 3 hrs in install.
After PC restarted it showed error message
indicating cable wasn't connected (which it was)
Could NOT uninstall network adapter drivers.
Tried to restart...