Updating Windows problem

[kulture]

I have a All in One PC which I purchased a few years ago. It was at a fantastic price and is still a reasonable specification. It has a Core i7 chip (2600s) 6Gb of memory and a SSD drive. It was a Windows 7 machine which I upgraded to Windows 10.

The upgrade was difficult but eventually worked. My problem is that the anniversary upgrade keeps failing. I remain on build 1511. All attempts to fix this have failed. The one remaining fix that I have not yet tried is resetting the computer and starting from scratch. I have of course updated all the drivers and all other software (not that there is much).

The machine itself runs acceptably fast and is more than sufficient for what I do. However it is irritating having the weekly black screen and hour wasted whilst I have to re-boot and re-boot repeatedly until it fails to update and rolls the update back.

The question is, is it worth resetting the operating system and re installing all my software. Or shall I just leave it alone? If I cannot upgrade beyond build 1511 what security risks am I running? ( I run a upto date professional anti virus and fire wall) How long can I sensibly run this version of windows before I am forced to do something?

 

[Alan]

Why not dump windows and install Ubuntu? You call install it as dual boot, so you don't have to take a 100% plunge. Its really easy to do.

 

[faradaykeynes]

Make sure to scan with your Antivirus and any malware , some time these nasty viruses and bugs can compromise windows especially update feature.
I have issue with my windows 10 machine , I wanted to install new web development software to redesign my wedsite which required .net3 but windows 10 was failing on it , I tried many thing and eventually got offline .net installer and created a USB flah version of windows 10 to repair system, it worked, installed .net but W10 updates still dont work and i dont care for now because i have Ubuntu dual boot and you can run windows exe files in Ubuntu too with a little app (wine)

There are few link you can try if not done it already, manual windows update https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/973135/easy-fix---how-do-i-download-an-update-manually

Windows offline installer http://www.microsoftguides.com/windows-10-offline-update-th2-version-1511/

Hope you get things back as normal

 

[ffox]

The question is, is it worth resetting the operating system and re installing all my software.

There are no guarantees, but I've gone for a complete factory re-set on three machines in the past. A Dell Tablet (originally Win 8), a LINX 10 (originally Win 8.1) and a Lenovo desktop (originally Win 8.1). All three came up fine and the longest job was reinstallation of software. This was Office 2016, Trend antivirus and a few peripheral apps on the Dell and LINX and the same for the Lenovo plus Visual Studio and SQL server.

The machines run faster and are more stable after the reset. I did the Lenovo because it became rather slow some time after upgrade to Windows 10. It runs better now than it did when it was new.

Hope this helps

 

[jblz]

The question is, is it worth resetting the operating system and re installing all my software. Or shall I just leave it alone? If I cannot upgrade beyond build 1511 what security risks am I running? ( I run a upto date professional anti virus and fire wall) How long can I sensibly run this version of windows before I am forced to do something?

We've found lots of little issues that come from doing inline Windows 10 upgrades, rather than fresh install. Given the machine has had a few years use already I'd say it's absolutely worth it to reinstall. Windows can become very cluttered after years of use - a reinstall can significantly increase performance.
The Windows 10 installation process is now as easy as installing an application - and tends to find and automatically install all drivers, saving a large chunk of time and hassle.

Regarding reinstalling applications, have a look at Ninite. You can select a bunch of popular applications you want to install, you will download a tiny file with that configuration, and install it all for you automatically.

That said, I'm not sure what fixes you've tried but the following can often help.

Disabling antivirus
Removing/disabling all external drives
Running this - https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...-58c4-4704-b627-4a743e87e15c?tm=1447931905306

 

[bigbuzzbelfast]

I was going also going to say Disabling antivirus as well because when windows 10 tries to install it will always try it's own program first by default (defender) and sometimes on an install there can be a clash, so windows throws a hissy fit and says "I am no longer playing I am exhausted trying to install on you" and just sits there like a stubborn child in a supermarket when you refuse to give in to it.

 

[paulears]

Start from a fresh formatted drive and re-install everything. It's the simplest, but time consuming approach to make sure you have a drive full of the correct files, and not conflicting things left behind from upgrades and version changes. As for the suggestion to put ubuntu on a machine. Great - assuming you don't want to run conventional software. Microsoft office, Adobe, and loads of every day items on my computers would be impossible. All the enthusiast operating systems might well be fine for the people that understand them, but not for everyday use.