Windows 10 April update causing serious issues for some users

faceman

I fell victim to it and checking Reddit I was not alone. Seems to affect Windows users who had AVG or Avast installed and renders devices unusable. I’m talking directly to a MS engineer and I don’t have a fix yet.

More info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/8l5vim/the_latest_update_debacle_windows_10_1803_upgrade/?st=JHH7OS3V&sh=f1dc9dce

I'm at the stage where i have to restsart. Any way i can remove the Update?

faceman

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm at the stage where i have to restsart. Any way i can remove the Update?

Not sure but don’t restart if you can avoid it. Alternatively uninstall AVG/Avast before restarting.

faceman

faceman wrote: »

Not sure but don’t restart if you can avoid it. Alternatively uninstall AVG/Avast before restarting.

Yeah I think I can shutdown anyway without it updating. The options are update and restart, update and shutdown or shutdown.

Thanks for posting this thread

elysium321

I had to do a rollback. At least 3 games from Steam stopped working completely.
Luckily the rollback wasn't much hassle but it's still mad that they can release a piece of crap code like this without proper testing.

devnull

I've had no end of problems with this update, namely
- Noticeable drop in sound quality and maximum volume
- Noticeable issues with colour profiles
- Resetting many settings to defaults rather than what I had them as.
- Replacing full function drivers with generic ones that makes software bundled with drivers stop working.

However the worst thing I have seen is random sleep.

I literally have been typing up a document and in between key strokes my monitor goes off, my machine enters sleep mode and I have to wake it up. I have never seen anything like that before and it kept happening over and over again. First of all I thought it was a hardware failure until I noticed the machine was sleeping.

I should have expected that however, since laughably the machine started to sleep during the installation of the updates which is something I have also never seen before. I physically had to keep waking it up to progress with the installation and I've seen this happen on another two machines as well.

The good thing is though the rollback was simple and only took a few minutes.

devnull

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm at the stage where i h
ave to restsart. Any way i can remove the Update?

Control Panel -> Recovery -> Roll back to an earlier build (note you can only do this for a limited time after updating)

Then go to
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services -> Windows Update

Right click it, select stop. Right click it again, select properties, and change startup type to Disabled.

You won't be forced to have any updates that way. I've come to realise that with the bugs in this update and in the last one far better to just ban all updates unless I have a reason to update since my machine I know is secure and they cause more hassle than good.

Sparko

I had to roll back, my nvidia drivers went haywire. I spent a bit of time trying to fix them but I was getting nowhere so just rolled back and everything is back working now.

Will try and avoid this update for as long as possible and hopefully they'll iron out the issues.

beauf

My systems seen to spend more time updating than I do using them