Windows 10 cumulative update Hell after 1903 upgrade
What a mess.
I keep forgetting that it is best to start a post and edit it than to try and wait until you have written something significant because if you touch the screen in the wrong place, your post drops off the bottom of the screen, never to be seen again.
I have used the 1903 upgrade DVD to attempt to install that version. It gave me the option to ‘restore’ and save some of the apps and my data. The other option was to trash everything. So I elected to let it restore the system. Last I knew, the blue screen normally associated with Windows and the cirle of white dots was replaced with the dreaded black screen with the white buzzards circling the corpse of my formerly functional computer.
— update
I let the vultures circle on the screen all night long, but they didn’t grow weary and land, so I shut off the computer. I will have to think of a new gambit to out whit them. Currently the only way I see out is to do a distory everrything and reinstall Windows 10. I hate that, it worked last time update failed, but I lost a lot on that particular macine. Windows makes me feel so out of control. I need a command line solution, not one that needs windows to get windows working.
—- update to the update
On a whim, I went searching for the feature update disk for the Windows 10 1809, thinking that perhaps I could upgrade to the previous version. I came across a disk that said it was a repair disk made on the same computer in December of 2018. So I tried it and it told me, sorry about your luck, but that I could try some other options. One of the options was to restore from a previous point. Well, I had tried the only restore point it offered before and it had not worked. Then I noticed that there was a button that said, show more restore points. I hit that and there was one dated something like 5/23/2019. So I tried that and it gave me some song and dance about the restore failed because of some mystical problem with the registry. I don’t remember what I did next, something to shut the machine down or something and it said, wait while updates are installed. And it finished and restarted. Windows is working again. At the moment, I am backing up using the hidden control panel option of a Window7 back up. It said the backup size was 1.3 TB and there was 1.4 TB available on my external drive. Go for it.
