Large Windows 10 update?

[Fred Bloggs]

I've been pretty happy with my old Asus lappy since upgrading from W7 to W10. This morning when I woke it up from "hibernate" I was told that there was a new W10 update ready to apply. The W7 > W10 upgrade last year went pretty quickly, so I was surprised that this update took about two hours to install. As a result several things happened -

1 Classic Shell didn't work, it said I had a new OS so I needed to reinstall Classic Shell.
2 Many Cam wouldn't launch and Windows popped up a box telling me I had to download a new version of Many Cam.
3 My task bar went back to the W10 default and dear friend Cortana made a reappearance.
4 Looking in the control panel, it seems lots of non Microsoft Apps have updated and show an install date of today.

All seems to be OK, any one else had anything similar happen? Thanks.

BTW - It seems I now have v 1607 installed.

 

[ctdctd]

I've been pretty happy with my old Asus lappy since upgrading from W7 to W10. This morning when I woke it up from "hibernate" I was told that there was a new W10 update ready to apply. The W7 > W10 upgrade last year went pretty quickly, so I was surprised that this update took about two hours to install. As a result several things happened -

1 Classic Shell didn't work, it said I had a new OS so I needed to reinstall Classic Shell.
2 Many Cam wouldn't launch and Windows popped up a box telling me I had to download a new version of Many Cam.
3 My task bar went back to the W10 default and dear friend Cortana made a reappearance.
4 Looking in the control panel, it seems lots of non Microsoft Apps have updated and show an install date of today.

All seems to be OK, any one else had anything similar happen? Thanks.

BTW - It seems I now have v 1607 installed.

You now have the Windows 10 anniversary update (AKA bug fix) released in August via Windows update.
It's a complete Windows re-install, hence the time taken.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

You now have the Windows 10 anniversary update (AKA bug fix) released in August via Windows update.
It's a complete Windows re-install, hence the time taken.

Ah, OK. Thanks I was blissfully unaware of such a thing. It might have been nice if the update had told me that before I launched it. I thought there might have been something wrong.

 

[Einstein Jnr]

Not sure why Microsoft has taken the sneaky approach to major updates - many people upgraded to windows 10 by mistake thinking it was just another update.

 

[WTFH]

Why do many people these days not bother to switch off/reboot their computers?
Are they the same people who ignore the pop-up messages that told them about windows 10 for about a year, then felt the FREE upgrade was forced on them and therefore must be wrong/bad, instead of the previous versions where they had to pay £70?

I find it weird that in the IT industry, IT people seem to be about as knowledgeable (or even interested in finding out facts) as the Daily Mail.

 

[SueEllen]

Why do many people these days not bother to switch off/reboot their computers?
Are they the same people who ignore the pop-up messages that told them about windows 10 for about a year, then felt the FREE upgrade was forced on them and therefore must be wrong/bad, instead of the previous versions where they had to pay £70?

I find it weird that in the IT industry, IT people seem to be about as knowledgeable (or even interested in finding out facts) as the Daily Mail.

Due to how family and friends' use computers particularly laptops and mobile phones there is no point switching them off between use, plus those that use Mac or *nix are designed to be always on.

Also Microsoft has a habit of trying to force poorly designed OS upgrades on people e.g. ME, Vista, 8 so people don't want to upgrade until they know there are no significant problems if they do. They don't want to have to buy a new printer or other random program because the forced upgrade has stopped it working.

 

[BrilloPad]

Why do many people these days not bother to switch off/reboot their computers?
Are they the same people who ignore the pop-up messages that told them about windows 10 for about a year, then felt the FREE upgrade was forced on them and therefore must be wrong/bad, instead of the previous versions where they had to pay £70?

I find it weird that in the IT industry, IT people seem to be about as knowledgeable (or even interested in finding out facts) as the Daily Mail.

I tried windows 10 and did not like it. So I stuck at windows 9.....

 

[Fred Bloggs]

I tried windows 10 and did not like it. So I stuck at windows 9.....

Good idea. Myself, I have my desktop machine running XP and I'm quite happy about that.

 

[NotAllThere]

I tried windows 10 and did not like it. So I stuck at windows 9.....

I stuck at Windows? Nein! And installed a linux distro...

(I didn't, but I like the pun).

 

[MrMarkyMark]

I was very happy with my Windows 7, so downloaded a little utility to stop the Windows 10 auto upgrade.

I always let people run with it for a while before I ever upgrade any Windows system.
That having been said I have generally had good reports about W10.