Windows Update wasted ½ hour of vital working time

When I updated to the Anniversary Update 1607 I spent two days waiting for it to complete, but it never did. All I get now is a black screen with a circle of spinning dots. Can't even access the OS anymore. So I pulled out that drive and reinstalled my drive with Win 7 Ult. OS. So much for Windows 10 Pro. The drawback is I liked win 10 pro. It's a nice OS.

 

I understand your frustration but at the same time, the vast majority of users have had no problems with the update interfering with their work. I have 5 W10 computers here and all updated KB3176938 without locking up the computers. They did require a reboot, but that was automatically scheduled to 3am. On this computer, I had left an open Word document and when I returned yesterday morning and the system completed the install, the Word document opened and my latest edits where there just as I left them.

The problem is security and the blame game. Microsoft had to endure over a decade of blame with XP security, even though it was the bad guys who perpetrated the offenses, and the failure of the antimalware industry to stop them. Yet who did the IT Press, MS bashers, and that same antimalware industry blame? Microsoft.

By far, one of the best defenses against the bad guys is to keep our systems fully updated. And we have seen if users are left in control, Windows will NOT be updated in a timely basis. So Microsoft would much rather get blamed for a tiny minority of users having Windows Update problems (and it really is a tiny few) than getting blamed again for security issues they didn't create. And frankly, I don't blame them.

Your computer did not break, you did not lose any data and now it is fully updated and more secure. Yes, it was bad and inconvenient timing but in reality, no harm was done.

 

Set connection to Metered Connection in networking and this will allow you to choose when a update is installed.

 

It is! Clearly something went wrong with yours this time because that is not normal behavior. Certainly you didn't just install Windows 10 on this machine. Did WU interrupt your work every other time there was an update? As you noted, it worked fine until today. So is it really fair to blame W10 or MS? Or could there have been a wayward driver or other 3rd party app that caused this?

I probably sound like a MS fan boy but I assure you, I am not. That said, I believe the developers have done an amazing job with Windows in general and W10 in particular. Consider that there are over 1.5 billion Windows systems out there and already well over 300 million are running W10. Also consider that virtually every single one of those systems became a unique system within the first couple minutes after the first boot! There are millions and millions of different hardware combinations from 1000s of different hardware makers. Users immediately create user accounts, attach their own hardware devices, configure their own network configuration, and install/configure their own security (if not using WD and WF). We install our own favorite apps, 1/2 of which have their own auto-updaters that get jammed into Windows Start. We set our own colors, languages, and desktop configurations. We add our own tweaks, update hardware and drivers and more.

And yet, for the vast majority of us by a HUGE margin, Windows just keeps chugging along WHILE keeping us secure too! 1.5 billion systems, all unique, and virtually all work without any problems. I call that amazing.

The problem is, if just .1% have problems, that is still 1.5 million unhappy users. And 1.5 million unhappy users can make a lot of noise! Especially when that noise is amplified by bloggers MS bashers, and the IT press who love to bash Microsoft any chance they get with exaggerated (if not totally false) and sensationalized headlines.

Now if only the Microsoft marketing weenies and bean-counters would get out of the way and let the developers do their thing without interference, then I might truly become a Microsoft fan boy.

 

And that was when, a couple days ago? Or weeks or months back?

 

Okay. So there have been several rounds of updates since then, including the HUGE Anniversary Update that were applied without issues. Will be interesting to see what happens with the next updates.

Yeah, I know. I hate that thing.

 

Mine and the wife's updated on 8/10 and went as smooth as silk and still is as smooth as silk.

 

Interestingly my HP Notebook just received updates and installed and restarted with only 1 input from me. Took about 10 minutes and it installed: Update History shows:
KB3189031 Adobe Flash Player. Installed 2/09/2016.
KB3176938 Cumulative update for 1607. " 2/09/2016.
KB3176936 Update fro 1607. " 29/08/2016.
KB3176934 Cumulative update for 1607. " "
KB3176495 " " " 1607. " 15/08/2016.
KB890830 Malicious SRT " 15/08/2016.
My "Insider" comp is also receiving a new build #14915. Gee I love these SSD's and Ultra Fast Broadband (Fibre Optic cable) things work so fast and easily.