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My friend ran this on several of his computers, but I have neither heard of this, nor have had a chance to confirm whether or not it's true.

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The difference is, that with W10 Pro if you have your settings setup to reschedule your Update, you could at least tell it not to restart it until a later time and keep it from restarting while you are in the middle of working!ДЄnother thing worth mentioning to you is that should you decided to install the v1703 CU update at a later time via Clean Install as we recommend or attempt to Upgrade again is that I was told by a tekky friend of mine that Microsoft has put back the ability to disable & reschedule the installation of new udpates coming into your computer if you have W10 Home now, just like W10 Pro has had since last August. If you are running W10 Pro, this still happens even though Microsoft told everyone it wouldn't-I personally tested it on several of my computers.

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This was a pain if you happened to be writing a Word document or an E-mail as the restart would occur without warning and could cause your windows to crash if it occurred during a write to the hard drive. Windows Update Delivery Optimization: FAQД«ear in mind that in v1607, if you are running W10 Home, that version does not support the complete disabling of Updates coming into your computer nor will it let you reschedule a restart.

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How to temporarily prevent a driver update from reinstalling in Windows 10 Here are 2 links to help you with minimizing updates from coming into your computer in W10 v1607: It also took me 5 minutes to open this thread so I am going to run some scans to be certain I don't have Malware issues but I doubt it.Д¬lick to expand.> Hi Geoff: Glad you were able to get things working again by reverting to your earlier version of W10! And very good job of backing up your files prior to the Update! I am also noticing this forum runs like a snail all of a sudden and edit boxes in threads superimpose over thread (hard to explain) rather than create it's own box to work on. I am going to look at my other pcs to see if this problem occurs anywhere else and if it does I will go back with Macrium image files to before to see if that clears it up. Any attempt to use a Word file freezes the entire desktop and alt/ctrl/del will not work. I just noticed another startling wrinkle which is MS Office 2013 Word works within itself but will not work with html or inside Outlook and I have tried repair install and other ways to fix this. I can't think of a single unit that upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 or 8 that survived with the possible exception of some who installed 7 or 8 and then immediately upgraded, there are a few of those still running.

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For most users, this is the case and very very few home users have a clean running PC or have paid a Tech to go through it right before attempting the W10 upgrade.Д«BJ is spot on here as I personally have reverted or reinstalled over 100 machines who did upgrades by choice or claimed they 'have no clue how upgrade occurred' during the Free install period. Bear in mind too, that if the PC you have is not a clean-running machine and you've not thoroughly tested your hardware, the Upgrade process often fails in either or both cases. If at some point, you take all the necessary precautions for data backup and you wish to upgrade to the latest version of W10, you have the ability to undo the problems coming from a faulty upgrade and not lose stuff. In the future you may wish to turn off your WU and WUDO settings or change to a metered connection so that future major updates don't cause problems with your computer. Many hundreds of us W10 Insider Testers have seen this over and over again in all versions of W10 going back to 2014 prior to it's release, and Microsoft has a cleaner upgrade process, but it is certainly less than perfect, and often causes more problems than it fixes. Really, the most important thing is to realize that the entire upgrade process is 'sketchy' at best as kemicaly rightly states it. If it's available, and you haven't deleted the windows.old directories, that option might work for you. Others here may have tried it or heard about whether or not it's still available in the new version (v1703). Not sure if the Creators Update made the same 30-day uninstall provision that was in earlier versions of W10 (v1607, v1511, v10240) or not. Well, geoffwba7, regarding your question about rolling back your W10 version to pre-1703, no matter what you do there, we recommend that you should first backup all your personal data on that computer to external media to avoid irretrievable data loss before proceeding!