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Windows 10 update alert - apps stop working

ShiftHitTheFan
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So today I updated windows on my desktop, and started noticing problems right away after doing so. It would take 1min to load most web pages, all windows apps would hang (calculator, mail, etc), and some folders were moved around (user folders) documents, videos, downloads, etc).
Went though everything I could find online, and could not get anything to fix it.

 

Contacted Microsoft support, and got a really nice guy. Let him remote access my desktop, and troubleshoot. (I'm pretty good at windows / troubleshooting, but I'm never afraid to call for help)

Basically nothing worked. We recovered the computer back to a point a month  before, and that still did not work out the app problem.

The solution: Complete reset of windows...

I now have to reinstall all of my games and programs. Aprox 700gb...

Moral: Not all windows updates are reliable.

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Wait, "Some folders moved around"?  I don't think any update ever has done that.  Are you sure it wasn't a virus or something?

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did you upgrade to windows 10 in the first place or did you do a proper clean install?

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This reminds me of the update that a lot of people got a questionable message when they rebooted

 

 

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Wait, "Some folders moved around"?  I don't think any update ever has done that.  Are you sure it wasn't a virus or something?

Yea, I know it sounds like a virus, but it wasn't. Basically, it changed the location of a lot of things. I have two hard drives and a ssd. I have windows and some programs on the ssd, all documents, downloads, videos, etc, are on the hdd. What happened is that It moved the location of all of the user folders from the hdd's to the sdd. The rep actualy said that this problem has occurred a lot with this update, and that the software engineers are working to fix it. He said they are not shure what causes it to happen to approx %5 of updates.

 

did you upgrade to windows 10 in the first place or did you do a proper clean install?

I did a clean install back in November. I had to buy it due to the fact that I was running a oem virson of windows 7 that i stole the key from a library computer.

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Yea, I know it sounds like a virus, but it wasn't. Basically, it changed the location of a lot of things. I have two hard drives and a ssd. I have windows and some programs on the ssd, all documents, downloads, videos, etc, are on the hdd. What happened is that It moved the location of all of these user folders from the hdd's to the sdd. The rep actualy said that this problem has occurred a lot with this update, and that the software engineers are working to fix it. He said they are not shure what causes it to happen to approx %5 of updates.

 

I did a clean install back in November. 

after your updated and the PC restarted itself did you manually restart it or shut it down or something?

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after your updated and the PC restarted itself did you manually restart it or shut it down or something?

Nope. Nothing like that. Just a normal update.

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