Steve wrote:
On 30-Dec-17 14:52, Paul wrote:
Steve wrote:
On 29-Dec-17 17:15, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 29/12/2017 22:46, Steve wrote:
Hi,

So all of a sudden my start menu won't open and neither will settings.
This seems to have roughly coincided with a "critical update"

Left clicking on the start menu simply doesn't work. Right clicking
usually works (to open the right click menu). Oddly, sometimes a
combination of left and right clicking in succession will open the
start
menu properly.

I got this problem every time I reinstalled my Win 10. I think it's
installing something. Just wait patiently and leave it installing the
updates....



I've realised now the problem is linked to me installing Creators
Update 1709. I now want to roll back to the older version.

This is possible through Settings Recovery but I can't get to
settings as it won't load! In safe mode, I can get to recovery but
then the recovery just doesn't start. I have the Windows.old folder in
the C:\ but time is ticking away before it is deleted. How do I go
back to the older version??

This should do it.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html



And there's a separate tutorial for getting to Advanced Options.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html



Paul
Many thanks.

I got a little confused as the option I saw was "go back to the previous
version" as opposed to previous build.

Now I'm back on 1703 and have used Microsoft's Wushowhide tool to block
the update. However, even after this I can still see 1709 waiting on my
Windows Update screen although it says "Downloading Updates 0%"

It's not supposed to do that!

When you revert, the revert action is also supposed
to block the *same* OS upgrade from coming in.

*******

Back in the Win7 era, they were using the key mentioned here.

https://serverfault.com/questions/69...ows-10-upgrade

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUp date
DisableOSUpgrade DWORD 1

But I don't know if that works in this situation or not.

I also don't know if Wushowhide has any unfortunate interaction
with the blocking that the revert was supposed to do.

I think I've only tried one revert (on purpose) and
it seemed to block properly and didn't try to jam it
in a second time. I wasn't forced to use additional
hammers at the time...

Paul