I just turned my windows 10 laptop on to have it sit there on a light blue screen saying it was installing some update, now it’s showing a black screen with a big progress circle saying “updating windows” just like it did when I first installed it last year.

Has there been some massive update? Is it totally reinstalling windows 10 for no good reason? How long am I going to have to wait? Will it even come back at all? If it turns my scrollwheel upside down again there will be fire.

It’s been going twenty minutes and it says 7%… 🙁

About three hours worth over the Christmas period.

Edit: It’ll erase Ccleaner, Malwarebytes and change lots of your settings.

2gb download, its the november release trickling out. As my internet is so slow im on 10gb allowance as its not worth it otherwise its hammered my allowance, really gonna put a dint in my pornhub usage this month.

Anyone else now find that the popup keyboard in tablet mode now appears directly over where you are typing so you can’t actually see what you are splurg, humpt, chet and spoining, sorry, i mean typing??

😉

Got it yesterday.. took hours. No noticeable differences to me but all I use it for is Word, Excel (basic in both) and TrainerRoad so not a lot to go wrong really..

Anyone else now find that the popup keyboard in tablet mode now appears directly over where you are typing so you can’t actually see what you are splurg, humpt, chet and spoining, sorry, i mean typing??

Should be an icon in the top right of the keyboard that returns it to its rightful place.

Mine is saying it failed for some reason and to retry.

i got this too. another annoying this i found was it overwrote my desire to stop windows automatically downloading and installing device drivers. They better not keep doing this, very annoying!

It finished, eventually. No difference that I can see, except:

– It reset the scrollwheel to go the wrong way
– It broke the middle click on the touchpad
– It broke the screen brightness control, so the screen is now really dim

All of these problems I fixed when it first installed W10, but it’s broken them all again anyway. I’d better see if I can remember how to fix them, then…

Microsoft, you’re all morons. Don’t do it again.

It’s the November update, aka Windows 10 1511 (15 – 2015, 11 – November)

These will occur at regular intervals (half yearly, maybe quarterly). Windows 10 is a change from the past. Instead of releasing a new version of Windows after a long delay of many years and not getting any new features in the meantime, there will be no Windows 11, 12, etc. Just Windows 10 but with feature updates on a more regular basis.

These are actually full installs of Windows so may reset a few things but shouldn’t trash everything if it runs as an update. Just maybe annoying if it resets some settings. It can also install new drivers in the process which might mess things up if you’ve been using a driver from a manufacturer web site because it’s better or fixes the official driver in Windows Update.

You can also download the update as an ISO and that’s then the only disc you need if you want to install it fresh.

It’s basically taking the approach Linux distributions take, except that the big updates are forced on people to try to avoid issues of fragmentation and having to support lots of different versions.

The downside of this approach is a lot of features are beta quality. They are being tested on the ‘insider’ program (which you can opt into if you want more frequent updates), but still seem to be pushed out for release incomplete and with bugs.

Is it worth upgrading from win 7 yet?

To be honest, if it’s going to knacker all the drivers every few months, no it isn’t!

It wouldn’t be so bad if it would just say “so I’ve got this really big install to do, now or later?” rather than finding it’s out of action for an hour or so right when you wanted to use it.

Depends on your system really. Initial Win 10 install had rubbish network driver for my desktop and rolling back to an old one fixed it, but the later updates seem to have fixed the issue. Then again I’ve seen people get the Nov update and find they get a duff driver or settings reverted.

I’m happy with Win 10 now on both my tablet and desktop, and the Nov update brought fixes for a number of things and a few new features.

yep got my update yesterday, big one. I notice now CORTANA works, it wouldn’t before as it refused to allow different languages (US vs proper English) in the settings.

Sui yes it appeared to have changed a few settings, notably display settings for monitors but also some cache stuff.

w8kers no it hasn’t