Jason wrote in
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I think I'm seeing a pattern. I know quite a few people who have been
experiencing the same difficulty with the latest updates that I've had
on two machines. And I know a number who haven't (including my wife).
What seems to differentiate those with trouble and those without is
that machines that were upgraded from earlier versions have problems
while those that shipped with an older version of 10 have not. Both
machines of mine with upgrade failures were upgraded from 7 to 10.
Friends who had versions greater than/equal to 7 are also running into
similar trouble. It is frustrating that the failures are not better
understood by MS. I spent a lot of time with their support folks who
finally just gave up.

I was happy to see that MS finally figured out how to update older
versions without requiring a complete reinstallation, but I wonder now
if that improvement had some side effects that now cause issues that I
and others are facing.

I finally succeeded in updating to 1709 today. I tried it before but it
threw an error some where and backed out. I didn't catch what the error
was so was somewhat in the dark. I did some research online, and one of
the things I saw was that some people were having problems with antivirus
software. So I disconnected from the internet, disabled Windows Defender
and Windows Firewall, and gave it another try. But not before imaging the
system drive again! An hour and twelve minutes later, all was gold.
Turned things back on, reconnected the ethernet cable, and business as
usual.

My System:

ASUS F2A85-V PRO (FM2) motherboard that was no longer front line in 2013
AMD A10-5800K
24 gb memory
Samsung EVO SSD for system drive
A bunch of WD and Seagate one and two terrabyte drives for data
Two large AOC monitors

As I was typing this I found that one problem I was having pre-upgrade is
still with me. Every so ofter, in no discernable pattern, my mouse slows
down and/or pauses. To me it looks like something is eating interrupts or
some such. Just now my system actually froze for a little bit. Even the
clock display in the task bar stopped updating. Over the years I have
learned to not do anything drastic until I really have to, so I left it
alone (while I answered a call of Nature) and everything is hunky dory
again. I'm sure I'll find out what it is sometime.

BTW This a system that has been continuously upgraded from Win7 to the
first Win10 and on until today. All Pro versions and 64bit.

And before anyone asks, all my adult life I have always bought the
previous versin of the hardware with the minimum RAM, because that was
what I could afford. When I built this system I had come into some money,
so price wasn't an issue, and I believe that this will probably be the
last sytem I will own. So I loaded up on RAM while I could afford it so I
would (hopefully) never have to add more down the line. So far I have
never seen the system use more than 6gb, even when running a couple of
video transcodes at the same time.