Originally Posted by
gehenna
Thanks, H 'n' H ! Yes, I believe W10 did an update fairly recently [Added by H 'n' H ....
], and I suspect this may be a result of that. Not being a tech wiz, I am loathe to try and change too much,
unless you have an easy-to-follow solution?......
Change to Linux??????!!!!!
No, seriously, one of the things I found with Windows is there is sometimes no solution. In my case, W10 changing the boot order in the BIOS was a designed-in feature as it turned out that MS "engineers" decided that if people fiddled with the BIOS to make Windows lower down in the boot order, W10 would make sure it "saved people from themselves"! Of course, it meant that people like me who
wanted the BIOS to do something different for a very specific reason weren't allowed to!!
It stayed set each time when I rebooted to Linux but, as soon as I booted to W10, W10 very kindly "fixed it for me"! Naughty Microsoft fiddling with my BIOS ... ooo, Matron!!!! Only solution - yet another HDD installed!
The time I had to reformat my HDD was when a W10 update completely screwed things up during the update (not even an upgrade!) to the extent that I couldn't even roll back to an earlier version. Even a really helpful quite senior MS Engineer (a genuine Californian I eventually got put through to by Microsoft themselves when no-one else in their "helpdesk" system could solve it) couldn't do it - hence my relief that I had, long ago, fitted a "Data HDD" along side the "System HDD (C Drive)". As I say, they then halted the dist of the upgrade to limit the damage and re-released it a few weeks later once the bug had been fixed. It only affected some PCs but enough to cause a mega-stir in MS-land! I had to format the C-Drive and reload an earlier version of W10 from scratch and "Whatever you do, don't accept the update!" the MS Engineer advised! NSS!!!!
Oh, and I had another time a Windows "update" screwed things up. That time, when I got hold of MS, the bod was straight on to it. "Are you using a Canon XYZ-123 print driver?" "Yes" says I "have been for a good couple of years now! Why?". "Ah, just delete it and use the native Windows generic print driver!" "But why?" I asked "I'm not even trying to print, and it's a screen format fault, not a print fault!". "Just delete the driver, Sir, that will cure your screen format fault!". I did - and it did! When I asked why all he said was "The latest Windows update doesn't like that driver!". Go figure that one out!!!
Rant over
, I'm sort of OK with PCs but, without your machine in front of me (or, rather, even if I had your machine in front of me) I'm not sure if you are doing something wrong ..... OR ... the update has bu66ered something up for you! My £££ is on the latter! Have you tried to roll back to a Checkpoint before the update? That should then prove if it is linked to the update or not. That would be my first move!
I'm not saying Linux is perfect but it seems easier to find people who can fix things (often the Linux developers themselves - I use Linux "Mint") and it is far less resource hungry. I accept it is a bit quirky (I wish I had got into UNIX in my youff!) but it is all self funded and it (+ it's Apps) easily does 99% of what I want. Cost? I donate a few $$$s a month to the "Mint" team to use the "free" OS (they even list, each month, all those who donate in their monthly newsletter -
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3887 !!!) and I happily do my thing. Given the Linux "Mint" development budget and the MS Windows 10 development budget........... well, you see where I'm coming from here!!!!
Anyway, hope you manage to solve your problem.
Cheers,
H 'n' "Windows Free" H!!!
Question:- Why do all Windows users have a PC desktop
and a PC laptop?
Answer:- So they can use one of the machines to access the Interweb to try and figure out why the other machine has suddenly stopped working all of a sudden!