"There were problems installing updates"

Geosammy said:

Thanks!
That is my plan.
I do make periodic system images to an external drive, but the last one I made was the one I just did the repair on.
I'll be sure to make a system image from this new install.

I was trying to avoid having to do the in-place upgrade, but nothing I did seemed to do any good.
Things seem to be back to "normal" now and I thank all of you, that gave their time to help with this issue.

That option is the only one that will save your apps and data. And clean/fix all the baddies. It's worth the time.

Use a disk imaging program that creates an image of all your windows partitions, and allows you to update it quickly.

(Macrium, SSD, USB3- a differential image in under 12 mins if I recall).

f14tomcat said:

That option is the only one that will save your apps and data. And clean/fix all the baddies. It's worth the time.

Yes I agree.
All the time I spent trying to fix this issue myself, I could have spent doing the in-place upgrade instead.
The deeper I went into trying to fix this issue, the crazier it became.
All signs were pointing to the in-place upgrade, but I couldn't, or didn't want to see the forest for the trees.
Live and learn.

dalchina said:

Use a disk imaging program that creates an image of all your windows partitions, and allows you to update it quickly.

(Macrium, SSD, USB3- a differential image in under 12 mins if I recall).

Will do.

Thanks!

dalchina said:

Use a disk imaging program that creates an image of all your windows partitions, and allows you to update it quickly.

(Macrium, SSD, USB3- a differential image in under 12 mins if I recall).

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f14tomcat said:

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Thanks!
I'm familiar with Macrium Reflect and will us it, in place of the Windows Built-in system image creator, which is what I was using.

Geosammy said:

Thanks!
I'm familiar with Macrium Reflect and will us it, in place of the Windows Built-in system image creator, which is what I was using.

That's good, because MS is dropping their Built-in (SIB) in the Fall Creators Update.

f14tomcat said:

That's good, because MS is dropping their Built-in (SIB) in the Fall Creators Update.

I wasn't aware of that.
Thanks for the heads-up.