Windows 10 update changed my personal settings---WHY???

Hi,

Based on your description of the situation, your experience with the recent update have removed your personal settings. We recommend that you send us a suggestion through our Feedback Hub so we can consider this to be applied for our future updates. Our developers are working hard to provide better features on our applications to be implemented. To send a suggestion for this application, follow the steps below:

1. On a Windows 10 device, search for “Feedback Hub” in Cortana search, then launch the app.
2. Navigate to Feedback in the left menu, then press + Add new feedback.
3. Select the Problem, and share any details you think are relevant, and choose an appropriate category and subcategory.

4. Important: If possible, reproduce the problem(s) after clicking Begin monitoring (or Start capture) near the end of the form; Stop monitoring when you’re done.

5. Once you’ve completed the form and monitoring, click Submit.
6. Click Continue using Feedback Hub.
7. Click My feedback at the top, then find the item you submitted (it may take a while to appear).
8. Open the item you submitted, then click Share.
9. Click Copy link, then paste the link here in your response (it will look like https://aka.ms/<unique link>).

We appreciate your feedback.

So your best solution is to send feedback to Microsoft? Does Microsoft need user feedback to know that it's very annoying and disruptive to have settings randomly disrupted without warning every time Windows 10 is updated?

Why don't you provide a real answer to my question?

Is there a way to protect my personalization settings during Microsoft's _compulsory_ updates? YES? NO?

Yes, we do need user feedbacks to let our developers know what are the necessary things that must be done in order to achieve our goal to have a user friendly interface.

Major updates make changes in the operating system. It also affects user interface and settings. This is normal due to changes in adding or removing of features. If you want to retain your user settings, it is best to turn off the automatic update. Visit this link: Windows Update: FAQ to know where you can find this option. Once there, expand the “How do I keep my PC up to date?” drop-down article and go to the “To turn on automatic updates in Windows 10”section to see the instructions and perform the opposite way.

"it is best to turn off the automatic update"

You can't actually do that. However, it is now possible to delay feature updates for up to a year and quality updates (including security improvements) for up to a month. The feature updates have been the most troublesome and least useful for me, so I've delayed them for four months to allow me to check content and the user reaction. The quality improvements I've left at 0 days delay because of the security implications.

I don't think this delay option was available in the original Windows 10. It's a welcome addition that should have been there from the start.

Also, if Microsoft is going to mess around with users' personalization settings, they should at least give notice of that and issue a list of settings that are likely to be affected. Windows 10 is the most difficult version to personalize because of the cut-down personalization system, and I've been losing hours fixing things after every "feature" update.