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Nelek wrote: I would not say that much... a clean installation usually works way better than such a big update.
I'm not sure but I think that you might have misunderstood my post. I wasn't implying anything about the quality of the update.
I was simply saying that Windows 10 feature updates are very similar to a full installation. Some of the code behind the update is the same code that's used in the installation. I spent a few years on the Windows Update team and worked on some of that.
Anyway, my point is that nobody should be delaying updates for over two years.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
Edit:
Sorry, I am really bad at assuming others will make inferences from implied information. The 'full installation' spiel is to explain why his FTP passwords and Classic Shell was replaced. The feature update image overwrites those parts of the registry.
modified 21-May-21 19:13pm.
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Randor wrote: I spent a few years on the Windows Update team and worked on some of that.
I know, you have told it a couple of times. And I know how skilled and experienced you are 
Randor wrote: I was simply saying that Windows 10 feature updates are very similar to a full installation. Some of the code behind the update is the same code that's used in the installation.
Yes, I took that way. But that's why I told that sometimes it is better to do a clean installation anyways, because my subjective experience is that it gives less problems.
As I always separate System from Data either in partitions or in different drives in all the devices where I put my hands on, it is less usual that we have problems with data losses. But anyways...
My In-Law has already have a couple of problems after big updates (Printer, Monitor, remote drives and a couple of weirdos more) and my Media laptop (which actually is pretty basic... windows, drivers, office, pdf, 7-zip and vlc, that's all) has given me a couple of WTF! moments after an update too.
So at the end I re-did the Install-USB with the media creation tool to download the new Version and clean install it after the major update... Almost all of the problems didn't come with the clean install.
And I think there are several CPians having had similar experiences...
Randor wrote: Anyway, my point is that nobody should be delaying updates for over two years.
I agree, but on the other hand, the updates should give way less problems and people wouldn't stop them. You have to recognize that the update process has lost a lot of quality latelly and that the people is pissed / sceptical and try to avoid them is not that surprisign. If it is a good or a bad idea... I leave it at one's discretion.
I don't stop them, but I try to always reduce the collateral damages as much as I can and to have a Plan-B ready...
Randor wrote: The 'full installation' spiel is to explain why his FTP passwords and Classic Shell was replaced. The feature update image overwrites those parts of the registry.
A clean installation would have lost that too
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, that's simply an incorrect assumption. Just searching this forum for my rants will reveal my last major disruption was only a few months ago when I applied all Windows updates (and it deleted many settings, broke other stuff etc). Like presumably every other Windows 10 user I no longer have an Update History tool that provides any info whatsoever, so I can't tell you which updates have been applied or when. But it's not so very long ago that I discovered some old .SWF files (flash), that have been on my system for ages and are definitely not a threat, but were useful to me, no longer run without needing to install 3rd party tools. I believe this was done in KB4577586 when updating to v1909, so more recently than October 2020.
Maybe I've "hacked" the update system, but Windows thinks otherwise. I stopped, disabled the wsuauserv service and for a while that reduced the prompts to update. However when, last week, I started getting the "you must update" messages, I checked and wsuauserv was very much alive and kicking again. As far as I'm concerned, if MS is making unauthorised system changes to my machine, they're hacking me, NOT the other way around.
"Lots of updates to apply" would never, in my book at least, be an excuse for deleting passwords.
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I'm with Richard on this one, not only did you hack the update system but you closed (turned off?) the computer when expressly told not to. IMHO you can't bitch at MS when you circumvent their standard procedures.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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You may not recall but in earlier Windows versions the update process gave you information about what it was doing.
When the update sits at 1% or 2% with no apparent activity, no explanation of what is happening, and has been like that for well over half an hour just how much time and electricity does MS want us to waste? 20 years ago I could have understood a power outage during an update causing unexpected consequences. In 2021, with an army of developers and phenomenal impact when things go wrong (there are hundreds of millions of Windows installations; billions?) then one would expect MS to be able to engineer recoverable processes. If not, they must provide a get-out option for those who do not wish their systems to be severely disrupted.
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I think one has to go along with the update philosophies of any operating system. My main system is not Windows, but I try to keep all Windows VM's up to date. If I go to settings and tell it to check for updates, it will always update right away. If I don't want to risk updates when I am doing something, I disable the NIC.
I always have a copy one update back just in case. I don't recall Windows ever messing with Classic Shell other than having to allow CS to reconfigure itself. Don't recall too much to grumble about, a few times it did update when I ran a job overnight. Grumbled then. Old people grumble a lot. 
I think you are wise to rant, clears out the cobwebs.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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You are way off the happy path, and the other problem is the kiddie coders at msft have no clue about actual use scenarios and they only know people who install updates immediately without question.
You are not compliant with their world view.
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 You're right about being way off "happy"!
Do Microsoft actually know how much people loathe them?
ps it's telling me to update AGAIN today! Is this normal? Every four days???
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Since @SanderRosell must be busy with other things today, I'm submitting a SOTW in his stead. If he's simply forgotten then, this song is actually appropriate.
steven wilson - 12 things i forgot - Bing video[^]
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Here's my contribution: [SFW]
SOTW[^]
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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 maybe SR will hear this .. great choice indeed, the shortest SOTW ever and highly relevant
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Yes ... where is SR is a big question Let's keep up the spirit of SOTW ..
This Steven Wilson is a great track indeed , and I believe some works of Katatonia belong here too, like this one
KATATONIA - Leaders (+ lyrics) - YouTube
Cheers ,
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Porcupine Tree...love em!
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Does a Champagne bottle call his father "Pop"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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He definitely calls his grandmother "Bubbie"
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"I don't drink anything stronger than pop.
and my Pop will drink anything."
Gordon Lightfoot
at in concert in Kitchener Ontario in the early 80's
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Shirley, he calls his father Fizz.
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Don't know, but the weasel does! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Given that spark, he'll think about it. In case he is rebuked he'll likely flat-out wine about it.
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Nah, his parents split long ago.
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And his mother is Mumm?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I always get worried when I don't see the "Sound of the Week" post from Sander.
Not because I worry about if something has happened to him, but I worry that it might actually only be Thursday and I still have another full day until the weekend 
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Sad thing is that the closer you are to the weekend, the closer you are to monday as well... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Well fortunately, in this case Monday's a holiday.
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