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I ran this computer just fine fine for several years, including a long while after I installed Windows 10 as suggested. I had very few problems at all until last fall. Then Windows 10 auto-updates started crashing my computer. I have spent countless hours researching & testing things, running all the troubleshooters, running diagnostics. I've tried so many things to stop this over the past 6 months, & now I'm afraid I'm screwed. After every update I can recall since last fall (2017), The computer booted up just fine & appeared to be perfectly fine. I could open & run any program just fine. No troubles. But, 3-10 minutes into using the computer, whatever I clicked on next would not work. There would be no response at all. I could still click on some things, but others wouldn't respond. Gradually, if I continued to try to click on things, they would all not respond & the computer would completely freeze. I would reboot & it would happen over and over until I gave up & started trying to solve the problem by troubleshooting & reading blogs...anything I could do to solve it. Every time, which by now has been about 15, I would wind up having to revert to an earlier build. Once I did that, everything worked perfectly.....until Windows 10 forced another update. Then it all started over again. Two weeks ago, an update happened, & I reverted back, but then it did it again 2 days later. Then again the next day. I reached Microsoft support on the phone, but they just said: "your computer is not compatible. Our developers can't know all the old drivers out there, so we can't help you". I asked if they would help me just turn off the auto updates, which I used to be able to do. He said No. My computer is a Gateway FX6840, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz, 4.00 GB RAM, 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor. Yesterday, the PC updated again, but this time they have removed the ability for me to revert back to a previous working version. I'm hoping I'm not screwed, because I have several cryptocurrency nodes (not bitcoin, no I'm not rich) that have wallets on them & I'd prefer not to rebuild all of that if I can avoid it. Nor do I want to re-install the many programs I have loaded with all my settings and custom menus, addons, etc. in place by doing a clean install. I don't have alot of money, so the little I have, I'd like to not lose or have to build back from scratch.
Is there anybody out there who can help me, or point me in the right direction? I'm leary of those support companies that want a fee, then pipe in and take over doing God knows what to my computer.
Thanks in advance for your help. Signed 52 year old dude who built his 1st PC from scratch in 1990, but is lost with this new stuff.
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This can't possibly be a small issue affecting just a few people. I have 5 machines shut down by automatic updates. I have 3 that I have gone through the painstaking process of repairing and, since I'm in business, I had to go out and spend a grand on a new laptop and am at my wits end with the latest 3 update shut downs.
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Unfortunately, I do not understand what you are writing. I know that there are bugs but I do not actually get them off and when i call Microsoft for support from getting this windows 10 home update 1079 they are updating bios .. this Windows Befender can not get me anywhere I know: C: / urses / eitoAppdata / Local / packges / Microsoft
Microsoft Edge: 8wekyb3D8BBwe / tempState / Downloadswindows10 Upgrade 9252.exe
Ev himself can get into this and I can not get anything in the distance. I am alone in the middle of **** and I do not have to pay for and carry this desktop maintenance.pays a mere bios setting of 79 euros + hourly salary of 70 euros an hour. **** this is the constant upgrading and editing of Windows .. you are not my fault this ...___ @
Valitettavasti en ymmärrä mitä kirjoitat. tiedän että tässä on virheet mutta en itse saa niitä pois ja kun soitan Microsoft tukeen mistä sain tämän windows 10 home 1079 päivityksen he käskevät Päivittää Biosin.. tää Windows Befender ei päästä minua mihinkään Tiedän : C:/urses/eitoAppdata/Local/packges/Microsoft
Microsoft Edge:8wekyb3D8BBwe/tempState/Downloadswindows10 Upgrade 9252.exe
Ev itse pääse millään sisälle näihin ja en saa etäyhteyttä en mitään. Olen yksin tään paskan keskellä ja ei minulla ole varaa maksaa ja viedä tätä pöytäkonetta huoltoon. maksaa pelkkä Bios asetus 79 euroa + tuntipalkka siinä 70 euroa tunti. **** tää windowsin jatkuva kääntely ja muokkaus..ei ole minun vika tämä...******@hotmail.com
My 1 Windows 10 machine has been fine since it recovered from this update problem, my 2 others were never affected. I've concluded that a Chromebook is an essential backup. My Acer is always instantly ready, 12 hr battery life, getting a lot of use in places we never used a laptop before.
Whatever the current update Microsoft is pushing is causing me a world of pain as well.
I had been declining it for a few weeks I believe, and then I think the update pushed overnight. This morning I was not able to boot windows.
I tried all the repair and recovery options on the Windows CD and none of them worked. I ended up doing a fresh install of Windows.
At the time, I didn't suspect it was the update that was the issue. Windows loaded to the desktop and I was able to use the computer just fine. The update I needed was continuing to download in the background.
I left the computer for an hour or so and when I came back, it was totally bricked again. Had to reinstall Windows, AGAIN. And this time I declined the update.
As of now the computer is working just fine, but of course it's probably just a matter of time till that damn update finds its way back here and bricks my computer.
