Every few weeks Microsoft waste days of my life, WHY?

Just so sickening.

All day had a "feature" update stuck at 93% with CPU maxing out at 100% on some plugins migration task for hours. Twice it tells me I have to reboot despite still at 93% and after eventually rebooting telling me about some silly new features that I don't care about. Then it turns out the update failed and it wants to try it all over again and again.

Also got another error for an Edge update that keeps failing with 0x80240009. I've never used Edge and never will.

Every time you google an error, you get 100's of thousands of hits going back 10 years or more and Microsoft just tell people to TRY long winded procedures that the poster says does not work and then the thread ends without solution.

Do they just want everyone to give on Windows and move on?

Boulder said:

Do they just want everyone to give on Windows and move on?

If not a rhetorical question, then, no, I don't think so.

To the contrary, "they" want to strengthen Microsoft hegemony across the planet. It's all quite diabolical, considering your alternatives are Linux, Apple, or an abacus. It's working quite well, steady as you go, glide path intact.

@Boulder, I assure that your experience is not what everyone experiences.

In my case, I have machines ranging from 10 years old to less than a year old and I keep upgrading with practically no problems at all.

In your case, since your configuration sounds prone to difficulties, you might consider some of the following:

1) Defer feature and quality updates. See this tutorial:

Windows Update - Defer Feature and Quality Updates in Windows 10

2) When or if you do finally install a feature or quality update, create a backup just prior to doing so so that you can easily revert back if you should need to do so. See this article for steps to doing this using Macrium Reflect. NOTE: Macrium Reflect offers a free version which is highly regarded by many in this forum.

Backup and Restore with Macrium Reflect

3) Consider allowing some time before installation of new feature updates to allow newly discovered issues to be ironed out. Along with this strategy, you might consider reviewing Microsoft's known and resolved issues dashboard for Windows to see if there are any obvious issues that might impact you. You can find that information here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...indows-10-2004

I hope that this at least gives you some ideas that may help you with future updates.

Hi,
Yeah I gave up on 10 home version ms indeed does what it want first and ties up all resources until it's finally done then I can do my 10 minute chore lol
No thanks
If you're on 10 home I'd at least go to ebay and buy a cheap 10 pro license
Then at least you can have more control options.

Updates wise I'd try windows update mini tool so you can switch to manual and update went it's convenient to you
Also you can at least see these failing updates like edge and hide the sucker
Download Windows Update MiniTool - MajorGeeks
You should look into why these updates are failing
Good post here to try especially this part

1) Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste:
2) sfc /scannow
3) dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth
4) dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
5) sfc /scannow

Windows Update 2004 - Error 0xe06d7363

Boulder said:

Just so sickening.
Every time you google an error, you get 100's of thousands of hits going back 10 years or more and Microsoft just tell people to TRY long winded procedures that the poster says does not work and then the thread ends without solution.

You stumbled upon good forums, wait until you find forms where there is no solution in thread, after some time of inactivity moderators will mark the thread as "Solved" and even choose a random answer as "Accepted" even though the answer didn't help the person who asked the question, nor does it help to anyone who visits the thread.

You guess who owns (serves) such forums or Q/A sites

EDIT:
oh btw, the random chosen "answer" is then duplicated and given different color so that it covers your entry screen!