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Microsoft announces Windows 10

I'm having install issues with Creator update... of course. You know I have gone for years and never had Windows update troubles. Guess I am paying for my previous good luck! lol

Installed fine on my older i7 920 system. On my main, which is pretty much a fresh install of Windows 10 from the issues I had a couple weeks back, it stuck at 12% last night, will still at 12% when I checked it this morning. Restarted and tried to use the Windows Update Assistant that had worked perfectly on the older system. Part way through fails out with a 0x... error (don't have the code with me right now). So moving to 10 Creator has not been trouble free and I really don't want to have to do a fresh install again.

Couldn't find much info about the error online. One forum said that fast boot enabled could be an issue. Haven't tried with it off yet. Anyone heard of that being a problem?
 
Boot into safe mode, go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution

Delete everything in this folder, reboot back to normal mode. This will force Windows Update to scan and re-download any new updates you don't currently have.

If you've set updates to require you to manually download them, you can also use this method to remove pending Windows updates that you suspect are faulty or irrelevant.
 
Vittra said:
Boot into safe mode, go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution

Delete everything in this folder, reboot back to normal mode. This will force Windows Update to scan and re-download any new updates you don't currently have.

If you've set updates to require you to manually download them, you can also use this method to remove pending Windows updates that you suspect are faulty or irrelevant.
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OK Vittra thanks. I'll have a look at that. I'm a little gun-shy of Windows 10 safe mode. When I was having trouble a couple weeks ago I went into safe mode and then couldn't get out! It wouldn't give me a log in option. I eventually resolved it by hard powering off three times, causing Windows to decide there was an issue, and then letting me pick a different boot option.

It was nasty... and brought out several expletives I don't normally use! :biggrin:
 
You can do it in normal mode but I don't recommend it - Windows Update might have the folders locked/in use.
 
It would appear that Windows 10 safe mode and me are just never going to be friends.

Went into safe mode and no matter what I did it would not accept my login password. I did at least get the option to log in this time, but it would not accept the password. I used safe mode with networking because my main account is my Microsoft one but nothing worked. Checked, double checked, and checked again the password. I didn't try enabling the hidden admin account this time. That might have worked as I believe that is a local account and my network account could be the issue.

Anyway, gave the script a try from you JD. Ran it and had it clean up several things including Windows update components. That did reset Windows so that it didn't think I had the Creator update.

So I installed from the Window 10 update assistant. The download process that was failing this AM worked. PC has restarted successfully and I am past 12% on the update. There's 16%. This is looking promising!

Thanks Vittra and JD! Really appreciate the help! That's a nice little script I'll add to my toolbox, and Vittra I think your safe mode option would have worked too had I had a local account set up to log in with. I think non-local was the issue? Can't come up with anything else.

46% and second reboot. Fingers crossed!

UPDATE: Success! Thanks guys. The Creator update won't allow me to use the older desktop background setting interface to set different backgrounds on two monitors... Why Microsoft?? Why??!! :blarg:
 
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I only got Creators update tonight, it changed my desktop background too, not sure how I feel about that.
One thing I notice is the memory usage at desktop is higher. Because of my anal nature I monitor stuff like mem usage. Even with all the spying ooptions and game mode turned off the memory usage is a few megabytes higher than pre-Creators update.
Maybe things will change after a few more reboots...
 
Lysrin said:
It would appear that Windows 10 safe mode and me are just never going to be friends.

Went into safe mode and no matter what I did it would not accept my login password. I did at least get the option to log in this time, but it would not accept the password. I used safe mode with networking because my main account is my Microsoft one but nothing worked. Checked, double checked, and checked again the password. I didn't try enabling the hidden admin account this time. That might have worked as I believe that is a local account and my network account could be the issue.

Anyway, gave the script a try from you JD. Ran it and had it clean up several things including Windows update components. That did reset Windows so that it didn't think I had the Creator update.

So I installed from the Window 10 update assistant. The download process that was failing this AM worked. PC has restarted successfully and I am past 12% on the update. There's 16%. This is looking promising!

Thanks Vittra and JD! Really appreciate the help! That's a nice little script I'll add to my toolbox, and Vittra I think your safe mode option would have worked too had I had a local account set up to log in with. I think non-local was the issue? Can't come up with anything else.

46% and second reboot. Fingers crossed!

UPDATE: Success! Thanks guys. The Creator update won't allow me to use the older desktop background setting interface to set different backgrounds on two monitors... Why Microsoft?? Why??!! :blarg:
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I haven't bothered playing around with 10 since the post anniversary update days. Is there some compelling reason you've found to log into your machine with a Microsoft Live account? I couldn't find one at that time, but then I'm old, skeptical AND not Microsoft's biggest fan of late.

Have they taken away the tiny "skip this step" on the Live account setup page that used to take you to local account setup?

I found the installation and upgrade process rather lengthy, (surprisingly lengthy compared to previous win versions), probably because of my (not very) high speed internet. When you start with the latest available ISO and it takes roughly an hour to get through on a relatively fast, SSD equipped system it points to lots of communications going on. I may be overstating the time, it's been a while, but it seemed like forever compared to a 7 install.
 
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