Cumulative Update KB4013429 and KB4013418 Windows 10 Build 14393.953

Scottyboy99 said:

Just wondered. The note about 'one of the first to get it - show me how' , does that take you into an insider sign up? If it does I'll avoid it like the plague. But I don't want to miss the creators update being rolled out to the masses just because I didn't click this or do something.

If you haven't clicked on it, yes it does. I won't be in a hurry to update to it on the first day unless I can get it manually; but even there the traffic will likely be heavy.

AllenChicago said:

Amazingly, Windows 10 Updates install faster and more trouble-free on this 2010 HP Pavilion Desktop, than Windows 7 updates did, during the first 5.5 years of this P.C.'s life.

And I'm finding that W10 updates install smoother on my 2005 Dell Dimension than my wife's Surface Pro 4. Took 30 min on the Dell in one wash, whereas it got stuck on the Surface 3 times at 95% "download"...

Bree said:

Once again, Disk Clean-up shows the familiar 3.99TB of updates to clean up. It has been working away for over an hour deleting all the hard links (multiple pointers to the same physical file) that cause this apparently impossible anomaly.

Attachment 125124

Update: just finished, took an hour an a half to clean up.

One of my machine shown this 3.99TB Windows Update Cleanup too.

AllenChicago said:

Amazingly, Windows 10 Updates install faster and more trouble-free on this 2010 HP Pavilion Desktop, than Windows 7 updates did, during the first 5.5 years of this P.C.'s life.

I still have an HDD with my laptop's original OEM Win7 on it. Occasionally I put it back in to keep it up to date. Yes, checking for updates on Win7 can take hours!

But... there is a way to get Win7 updates to run nearly as fast as Win10. Install the 'Convenience rollup update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1' KB3125574 (only available from the update catalog).
Whatever happened to that promised Windows 7 convenience rollup? - Page 3 - Windows 7 Help Forums

Then use Disk Clean-up to remove all outdated updates.
Windows Updates - Remove Outdated Updates in Windows 7 - Windows 7 Help Forums

All's well that installs well, well you know what I mean...no problems thus far.

Bree said:

I can confirm that for .TS video Film & TV, Windows Media Player (and Movie Maker) all crash opening files they previously had no problem with. VLC can still play them.

You can add to that list of Apps broken by this update the Microsoft Windows DVD Player.

Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsDVDPlayer_3.6.13291.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\DvdPlayer.ui.exe

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: MoAppCrash
Package Full Name: Microsoft.WindowsDVDPlayer_3.6.13291.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Application Name: praid:Microsoft.WindowsDVDPlayer
Application Version: 1.6.1329.0
Application Timestamp: 56141aee
Fault Module Name: CompPkgSup.DLL
Fault Module Version: 10.0.14393.953
Fault Module Timestamp: 58ba5c12
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000000000000349d
OS Version: 10.0.14393.2.0.0.768.101
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 4e97
Additional Information 2: 4e977b90a5c4a3bbe1b5c2261fe092e6
Additional Information 3: 3897
Additional Information 4: 3897b2f303b36f198b32db453438bc7f

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 854721438e69ab3b285fe07ab50a0d1f (133473330540)

Video issues can be fixed by Resetting the PC and, when finished, do NOT reinstall the Windows DVD Player App. Fixes all video issues described by myself and others, although, at least for .mpg and .ts, will require a video codec for playback in Windows Media Player. LAV video alone should be enough. Also, an alternate thumbnail provider will be needed for the aforementioned video formats, if thumbnails are desired.

Well I'm stuck on a Tosh laptop at the retry screen....retried 5 times so far no luck. On a custom box with a gygabyte MB I have the windows blue update screen warning me not to shut down....for over an hour. Ho hummm...I have no idea what to do next.

flhthemi said:

Well I'm stuck on a Tosh laptop at the retry screen....retried 5 times so far no luck. On a custom box with a gygabyte MB I have the windows blue update screen warning me not to shut down....for over an hour. Ho hummm...I have no idea what to do next.

On your laptop, on my desktop I tried three times before it took but the third time was after a reboot and shutting off Malwarebytes. Don't know if either action helped or if it was just coincidence; I expect that traffic is heavy to the servers.

On the custom box, I've only had a bad time with a Windows Update one other time and I did end up shutting the computer off and leaving it a minute then rebooting and doing a redo of the entire process. Don't recommend doing that but rather leave it go for quite some time and see what happens after a couple of hours.