I have Windows 10 on an AMD Athlon X2 64 CPU. After KB4056892 it also froze on startup on the splash screen before showing any animation. To get out of it just reinstalling this KB upon booting after a system restore, I had to go to an earlier restore point
date Jan 8, 2018 I believe. So I downloaded KB4073290, which I ran, but it said that it was not applicable to my system... I do not know if it is the Windows version or CPU or what. My Windows 10 version was something like 1629 whereas the catalog item was
for 1709. I checked for updates, but it only showed two small updates other than KB4056892 which it started downloading again. Sigh. I had the option of suspending updates for a month or so but not to hide any. Sigh.
So I installed Linux Mint 18.1 but messed up the setup, so I went with 18.3 except it has a Cinnamon incompatibility with the older video card in the laptop, so I am now going back to 18.1. Sigh.
I think a lot of software companies like Microsoft do not realize that people want stability, keep my computer working, and if something may break it, give me the option of avoiding it. Windows updates are so big and non optional and contains so much that
most people do not care about. Sorry Microsoft. I shall see how Linux fares.