I have survived the latest series of Windows 10 upgrades, but they are still a pain in the neck.  Every time it runs, it blows away my Nvidia driver and my screen reverts to a lower resolution.  I have to then uninstall Nvidia, revert to an even older driver, then use GeForce experience to upgrade to the latest driver.  The process works--I get my high res screen back, but it is annoying as heck.

My old system had Vista and the last upgrade of Vista blew my old system apart, putting it in an endless loop--I lost a lot of data, and the system, it could not be saved because there was no way even to boot into safe mode.

IMHO, Microsoft had better get there friggin act together soon with these holes in their system and endless round of upgrades, plus "forced obsolescence" of their OS's.  I supported their OS's and their networks for a long time in my career and learned to feel that their program of endless OS upgrades and the money behind their re certification programs was so bogus.  As a WAN admin my policy was never to install a Windows upgrade until other WAN admins with less risk to their business chimed in and gave a go or no go decision--we stayed in touch for that reason.  My company was a 24x7 insurance company at that time, and we could not afford downtime, which meant lost sales opportunity or lost customers when they could not file a claim because of an outage.  I had to come in overnight and on weekends when we decided to upgrade, just in case.

At some point, home system users should have the option to turn off the prying eyes of Windows upgrade and Microsoft's designed obsolescence program to force us into newer OS's or a subscription based headless OS.  It is organized crime in my opinion.

Rant over--I have my bona fides as both a freeware and pro developer and business systems implementer and trainer, look me up on LinkedIn and see who my connections are.

Flame away if you dare--seriously, I invite counterpoint and suggestions from others since I gave up on the certification ratrace long ago.

John Cillis

CSTE

CHMS

John,

I would love to have that option! And if not, be able to stop the freeze in the middle of a flight and have to click "wait an hour". Of course I never let it update, i do not need any more!

Lennie

Whilst you have my sympathy over update issues, I agree with Rob. It's the vulnerability of systems that haven't been updated which concerns me. The big WannaCry ransomeware attack a few years ago was mitigated by a Windows 10 update. I've found when helping people with update problems that it's often the included driver updates which cause the problems. It's easy to stop everything except maintenance and security updates in Windows 10: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disable-automatic-driver-updates-windows-10. I stopped this when I installed the OS and have yet to have an issue with an update. The other top tip I found some time ago is never to manually search for Windows updates, just wait for them to be offered. Apparently, Windows checks for compatibility before it offers updates but this is over-ridden if you check manually.

16 hours ago, lennie said:

And if not, be able to stop the freeze in the middle of a flight and have to click "wait an hour".

You can schedule when you want Windows to update and wether or not to automatically restart from within Windows settings.

Edited August 17, 20196 yr by vortex681

On 8/16/2019 at 11:21 AM, Rob_Ainscough said:

 My only suggestion for installing Windows 10 is do a system wipe and start from a bootable Win10 1903 on a USB stick.

Cheers, Rob.

I once had an Ubuntu/Linux OS as backup in case of Windows failure on a USB stick, it worked well because it gave me access to files on my system even if Windows would not start.  I wish I had had the USB stick when my Vista system died, because I wanted to recover the source of four programs I have written for the web, one an old DOS program but mainly CDBase, a proprietary music catalog that allowed users burning onto cassettes (remember those) to search songs by length so they would fit perfectly and leave no trailing silence, especially when the auto reverse decks came out.  It was my only ever Shareware program and I actually got paid $20 by a couple of folks, the joy I got from their sending me the money gave me millions of dollars of happiness.

But since that time, all my code had been public domain, including my program for MSFS/P3D Landclass Assistant (but people do not use it anymore with so much photo scenery tools available).   I also have two programs for school children from K-12 out there, MirrorArt, and Spirapaint, under my company name Cactus Artware, which I just made up on the fly since it's just for giving software and also career advice away for former colleagues and supervisors who need work in the IT field, since on disability I cannot derive income from that source, but I get good wishes.

I will look into making a bootable version of Windows on USB, just in case, so I can recover my system in case of a horrendous issue...  I appreciate you triggering the memory of my Linux/Ubuntu venture...

John