Windows 10 1709 freeze randomly

I can confirm that if you turn off "Fast Start Up", this particular issue stops.

This is related to the Power Management in the system that covers this specific feature of "Fast Start Up". 

Looks like it won't be fixed in further 1709 updates. 

The solution is to turn off this feature, or lock and stick with Creators Update build.

It is unknown to me that this will affect April 2018 Update which I am sure it will affect.

Windows "as a service" is becoming the new Linux 'round town.

These two major upgrades a year bring no stability for those who want to work seriously and need a working system throughout an entire year or more.

Hell, Satya. Do something, man. Split Windows in at least two branches. "Stable" and "Adventurous Builds".

Kind of like the Ubuntu LTS 5 year thing. It will be a lot easier on us. Please.

Thank you.

Manually checked for updates yesterday evening and was offered build 1803 aka redstone 4.

Decided to go for it (couldn't resist). Everything went smooth as butter and 1803 is now running and working well.

I'm one of the AMD FX group that turned off Fast Startup - but I'm not brave enough to turn it back on now that 1803 is here.

This is partly because I have an SSD so it starts very fast anyway, and partly because I don't want to take the risk of freezing and possibly getting corrupted data. This is my main work production machine so I'm not keen on taking unnecessary risks just for the research.

Is anyone brave enough to try it out and report back? - maybe someone with a test machine?

I installed 1803. While watching. For 1709, only disable fast start. For version 1803 we'll see ...

Any news on 1803 ? if anyone can say..... thanks

Your freezing issue is because of Intel graphics drivers. You can remove the driver from the context menu and it will not freeze there, it will still freeze in other places. Intel is working on a solution.