Your device needs the latest security updates...big time error.

Ok All.  Good news.  I just got the box back from the tech - that is that really nice but antisocial dude with the coke bottle glasses who lives in the trees down the street with no cell phone and no service for one anyway) all updated.  Apparently he has been doing a roaring business sorting this garbage out.  The problem he says is that MS hasn't been to good at writing the code for the updates around all the many peripherals out there.  My problem was an un-update-able driver for an unused ASUS wireless card that came with my ASUS M11BB desktop computer.  Apparently there is a record somewhere in the computer of multiple unsuccessful attempts to update the thing.  He had hit that one before and was unsuccessful sorting it out so he just ripped the thing out and deleted all mention of it in the software and did the same to mine before he even started.  He then cleaned up some registry issues that I probably caused trying to self diagnose the issues which were way above my pay grade.   Having done so he manually downloaded and installed with out incident the 1703 update from the summer some time , that apparently couldn't get in there as a result of the driver issue and then the 1709, which is apparently the November update, went in without issue.  Charged me just under 50 bucks CDN. 

      So his advice to you great folks is, in your searched for help, to watch the make and model of the computer that is running this operating system and see what came with it both in the software as well as hardware because there is a lot of feet on the ground out there and lots of them have left their shoe laces dangling.  Mine would be to make friends with some antisocial type with really thick glaces.

Yeah, those are my thoughts also. I have everything set up the way I like it and it takes a long time to get this stuff set up just right. A reinstall is a huge pain. Yeah, before I start setting it up, I'd make sure the upgrade was successful.

I'm not surprised that Microsoft is not addressing this issues. Just like Google ignores problems also. But it is very frustrating.

It might...but there are no guarantees and then I don't want to have to reinstall my programmes and settings.  It took me months to get things the way I like them.  If you're not fussy about that, then go for it.  I'd recommend a reinstall or a refresh and see if the upgrade will go through then, before you put anything back on.

Me too. When I woke up this morning it tried to download updates again. I hit ctl + alt + delete and ended the task in task manager. I've tried everything. Nothing works.

Do you think re-installing Windows 10 would work?