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Update hell & goodbye MS
Hi folks
This is more of a report than a query.When Windows 10 insisted itself on to our PCs we were given to understandthat updates would be forced rather than optional.All well & good if greater security & stability is the payoff.
But it didn't work out quite like that because the forced update system was/is badly problematic. Numerous reports spread across the web of frozen PCs, various funtions no longer working, restart loops, etc, etc.Take my Dell laptop as an example. Purchased with Windows 7 just prior to when the nightmare began. The initial update failed & it took many days to fix. I didn't notice in the T & Cs that in order to be able to use the laptop afterwards I would have to trawl through endless technical shite, sit and watch it saying Please wait/updating/do not turn off the PC etc, before I could continue with the work that I'd purchased the laptop to facilitate. (One time I was away for the weekend so I left the machine resarting (3 days) & when I returned nothing had changed!)
Well, the world isn't a perfect place & eventually, having torn out most of my hair I finally got the machine working again. Phew!Not long afterwards numerous other forced updates failed & once again I had to jump through a variety of flaming hoops before I could get some work done.I won't go through the whole shebang of subsequant update failures, lock ups & all round bad experiences & I'll especially avoid the aniversary update as I'm attempting to wipe those weeks from my mind in to preserve my sanity.After that & more failures I decided never to restart the laptop again, prefering to simply hibernate it and ignore further updates - just the opposite of the main purpose of forced nightmares.
This morning, due to a major AV update I unfortunately had to restart the machine. I knew I was stepping into quicksand at the outset but sometimes you just have to go for it.That was at about 10am. It is now 8.30 pm and have only just got the laptop back to the Desktop. Casting a glance into the update status I discover 65 failed updates!
Can anyone here blame me for vowing never, ever, even at the point of a gun, to use a Microsoft OS again? OK, so a Mac will cost significantly more to purchase but considering the work/time/money I have lost with Windows 10 I should have gone the Mac route in the first place.Whilst I'm here I may as well ask: Is there some magic fix to clear out the failed updates without having to struggle through endless technical shrubbery? I only ask because no-one will buy my laptop in the broken state it's in. If no easy fix exists I will take great pleasure in smashing the thing into as many pieces it takes to vent my spleen.