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Windows 10 Update Lockup

PoS said:
Sorry to hear this happened to you. Its a good thing I never upgraded to Win10 after seeing people with all these problems. Win8 works fine for me as a gaming machine and Im sticking with it.
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Windows 8/8.1 is/was the absolute worst. I'm not as big of a fan of 10 as I was 7, but 10 is still much better than 8. Windows 8 (and 8.1) was just nonstop awfulness.
<alt>doxygen said:
Good advice.

I didn't have an iso, and that's my bad. I have one for my work machine, and I do regular backups of my work areas.

This machine is almost back to "full operation". I did have most things archived on different drives, so restoration was really just a matter of reinstalling some stuff that forces you to place the programs in \Program Files or Program Files (x86). Then I had to get a few license keys from mfgs and run / install those for some reinstalled stuff.

I'd say this whole thing cost me about 5 hours, which is DAYS less than I expected.:peace
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I always install to the second partition. In my case, the second partition is a second drive, but you can install to wherever you wish. You aren't limited to C:\Program Files.
 
Slyfox696 said:
Windows 8/8.1 is/was the absolute worst. I'm not as big of a fan of 10 as I was 7, but 10 is still much better than 8. Windows 8 (and 8.1) was just nonstop awfulness.


I always install to the second partition. In my case, the second partition is a second drive, but you can install to wherever you wish. You aren't limited to C:\Program Files.
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Windows 8 was the Microsoft child that should have been aborted.

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Slyfox696 said:
Windows 8/8.1 is/was the absolute worst. I'm not as big of a fan of 10 as I was 7, but 10 is still much better than 8. Windows 8 (and 8.1) was just nonstop awfulness.
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It's not perfect, thats for sure, but I do not like the constant updates and communication with Microsoft servers that Win10 does- its a major security flaw and MS pretty much knows all about you and your habits (not to mention what's in your HD) when you use that particular OS. All it takes is one malicious hack of their Redmond servers and the whole thing will come crashing down.

My Win8 is heavily modified. I use a classic shell on it and tweaked it to the point where it runs smoothly now.
 
PoS said:
Sorry to hear this happened to you. Its a good thing I never upgraded to Win10 after seeing people with all these problems. Win8 works fine for me as a gaming machine and Im sticking with it.
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I stuck with Windows 8.1. Works fine for me.
 
<alt>doxygen said:
So I have a machine running Win10 which has been nagging me to allow it to update. This afternoon I decide to let it.
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I read this with some bitterness because in my Win10 experience, it's eventually going to update whether you "let it" or not. In an update this weekend, I lost my Favorites bar. Well, it's not lost; now Edge displaces little boxes of what it has decided are my faves, and if I want to see Faves toolbar, I first have to click a plus sign.

What's up with this? :twisted:
 
Slyfox696 said:
Windows 8/8.1 is/was the absolute worst. I'm not as big of a fan of 10 as I was 7, but 10 is still much better than 8. Windows 8 (and 8.1) was just nonstop awfulness.
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Yeah, I'm glad I never bit on those. My wife had a little netbook with Win8 and it was horrid.

I always install to the second partition. In my case, the second partition is a second drive, but you can install to wherever you wish. You aren't limited to C:\Program Files.
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The problem is that some of the software I use installs from the web. It puts things in those \Program Files directories and in the {account}\Documents directory tree and I haven't seen a way to redirect or move it. I think there are registry dependencies. It's only a few things.

It's all good now. Ordered another 16GB of DDR4 which should arrive today.
 
nota bene said:
I read this with some bitterness because in my Win10 experience, it's eventually going to update whether you "let it" or not. In an update this weekend, I lost my Favorites bar. Well, it's not lost; now Edge displaces little boxes of what it has decided are my faves, and if I want to see Faves toolbar, I first have to click a plus sign.

What's up with this? :twisted:
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I fooled with Edge for a bit when I got the machine, but switched back to Chrome and Firefox with Duck Duck Go as my search engine.

The new update has something called Cortana glued to the Task Bar. I haven't messed with it much.
 
MovingPictures said:
Windows 8 was the Microsoft child that should have been aborted.

Funny-Hammer-Windows-Microsoft-Image.jpg
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:lamo

Yeah, 7 was/is the best of those. That's what's on this machine. I went to 10 on the new build I did because I was worried about support going forward. The way I use that machine it doesn't need to be connected to the Internet most of the time, so I'm not terribly worried about MSFT sniffing it.
 
This sounds like a boot sector issue. Maybe a damaged master boot record.

The fact you had not previous version to go back too, could simply be you turned of that option at some point or again windows could not find it because of a damaged master boot record.

As for booting into safe mode that is tricky with Windows 10 but mostly because of SSDs and their speed... simply not enough time to press the button.

I recommend you make an USB windows 10 installation drive via the Windows Media Creation tool. It's free and everyone can do it (doing it right now in fact for a client). That way you will have windows 10 on a stick to do a recovery if needed and yes get into safe mode.

You could for example have gotten into a command prompt to do a MBR repair and that might have fixed the problem. Or done an integrity scan which can help as well.

Had very few non 3rd part related problems with Windows 10 since release.. although some updates on slow machines can take ages.

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