Windows 10 Automatic Updates Start Causing Problems

Forbes ^ | July 25, 2015 | Gordon Kelly

[Timber Rattler]

Last week Microsoft MSFT confirmed every Windows 10 update will mandatory and installed automatically. This was met with a hostile reception from Forbes readers with over 100 comments on my news article voicing their concern. And now some of those fears have been realised…

With just four days left before launch, Windows 10’s policy of automatic updates has run into its first major problem and it is causing many PCs to stop working correctly.

[Cold Heat]

This is just a load of crap....

[mlo]

I have three monitors on an Nvidia card and they are working fine, but I am seeing a lot of the flickering.

[Cold Heat]

I run GeForce cards..

I use GeForce experience for the updates, I do not use nor ever have used the Microsoft updater choice.

I just tell it to ignore the updates, and that I have it covered.

[Cold Heat]

BTW, If your machine did load a GeForce update and you don’t want it, all you need to do is roll it back.

[dayglored]

> You do know you can schedule your updates to suit your needs.
Go to setting, updates and change your schedule, simple as pie.

Of course, it’s one of the first things I do on any Windows machine.

The point is that with Win 10 that will no longer be possible. (unless you’re an Enterprise customer)

[Cold Heat]

I have had to do that on a couple occasions, not because of MS, but because the new GeForce update did not like my setup.

[Cold Heat]

The point is that with Win 10 that will no longer be possible. (unless you’re an Enterprise customer)

Are you entirely sure about that...I have not yet received win10, but my understanding was that you cannot turn off the "important" OS updates, but that does not hold true for the optional.

[Cold Heat]

A N’vidia update would be a optional..or should be as it’s a peripheral.

[bigbob]

actually the Apple fanboys are busy watching the stock tank on their iWatches

[Cold Heat]

I have a friend in Italy who saw it coming and shorted a bunch of it...says it’s the best trade he ever made..

[topspinr]

I’m not an Enterprise user. I have Windows 10 Pro. If you need the Pro version, request it.

[dayglored]

With pro you cannot avoid the updates. You can only delay them.

[alexander_busek]

Go to setting, updates and change your schedule, simple as pie.

I have been sitting in front of a computer (running on some version of Microsoft Windows) eight hours a day for roughly two decades, now, and didn't know you could do that. (How should I have known? Not once in my career have I needed to do that.) And, like a fool, I instead kept clicking on the "X" in the upper right-hand corner of the pop-up, over and over again, last week when the update command came - until I finally relented, and clicked "OK" - five minutes before an online meeting. Needless to say, for the next two hours, my computer was useless. And, because of the "new, improved" look and feel, I am still having to relearn and refamiliarize myself with everything.

Thanks, Microsoft!

Regards,

[Secret Agent Man]

They just cant drive people away from them faster, and then they go ahead and figure out a way to do it.

[Secret Agent Man]

Or maybe they will just go back to what worked and let users have control over their updates. Duh, Microsoft.

[867V309]

Windows 10 Automatic Updates Start Causing Problems

Of course it does! The more control you steal from the user, the more problems he will have.

[Secret Agent Man]

I honestly wonder if the top Microsoft management has bought a huge amount of stock in Apple and Linux platforms.

[Myrddin]

Linux or Apple.

It's not that easy in my neck of the woods. I have commercial boxes on RHEL 6.X and RHEL7.X. My local development machines are on Federa 22. The company laptop is a Windows 7 Enterprise. My big fire breather has Window 8.1 Pro (OEM). It will be going to Windows 10 on the 29th. The big machine also has VMware 6.0X Player to run all the other operating systems that I have to support, but lack space for physical hardware.

I still have 3 Fedora 20 system that I haven't had time to upgrade. Apple? Well, yes. iTunes running in the big machine hosts the backups for the iPad Air and nano devices. If you do this for a living, you have to keep the whole set of machines running smoothly.

[Ray76]

I do, which is why I avoid ms. It’s never ending drama with them. Just my opinion.

[Swordmaker]

Another one for your ping list, dayglored