Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

[mikeymikec]

JackMDS and deustroop do seem to be wilfully misconstruing what Craig234 is saying. I'm pretty sure that Craig234 is asking whether 1607 is worth the potential trouble to install and what the potential troubles are likely to be for people who upgraded.

I haven't seen an awful lot that 1607 fixes first-hand. I thought it was silly that in Win8x and 10 (pre-1607) that if Windows Defender was enabled, it didn't have a systray icon, and 1607 fixes that.

One undeniable fact is that pre-1607 will stop being supported with security updates at some point sooner rather than later.

I'm not aware of anything that 1607 breaks in general. On one customer's very low-end laptop, 1607 installed an "updated" and buggy graphics driver that made the machine pretty much unusable, but that's all I've experienced. This was potentially extremely problematic as AMD's drivers for this device were mostly exhibiting the bug and I had configured the machine to use the original driver that Win10 shipped with. As that driver no longer works on 1607, it was fortunate that AMD had finally pulled their finger out and released a working driver for the device in question (an APU for an AMD C-range CPU IIRC, or maybe an E2 something-or-rather, IIRC Radeon HD 8210).

To fix the broken update, if you have plenty of time, I'd do this in order:

In WU options, disable update retrieval from other sources, try installing the update again. If that doesn't work:
chkdsk C: /f /v /r
reboot, disk check completes
sfc /scannow
if it says anything remotely negative (e.g. "found issues and fixed them") reboot
dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
if it says anything remotely negative (e.g. "found issues and fixed them") reboot
Try installing the update again

If you have less time, skip the chkdsk and leave that as a measure of desperation.

In case it needs saying, I don't see any good general reason to avoid 1607, I only see good reasons to upgrade. If however there's a greater risk due to something specific about your machine, that's certainly relevant to you and you ought to ask about it.

 

[Craig234]

Thanks Mikey. I had some recollection from when it released of people saying they were sorry they installed it and avoid it, and wanted to get an update. I vaguely recall something about MS making it do new things that pissed people off.

 

[deustroop]

JackMDS and deustroop do seem to be wilfully misconstruing what Craig234 is saying.

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That is insulting.Mind your own business and do not tell anyone what I am intentionally misconstruing.

Craig said nothing about his intent. He was practically mute.

"Daily I get an error flash of 'Windows update not installed'. When I clicked it, it says update 1607 not installed. If I click more it has a button to 'fix problems' and install.

Do I want to?".

Since he records an error from the system, to me that sounds like an inexperienced user with fear of the unknown, that the install may cause further system errors. I advised to back up first.

What does he eventually say after you held his hand ?

"I had some recollection from when it released of people saying they were sorry they installed it and avoid it, and wanted to get an update. I vaguely recall something about MS making it do new things that pissed people off."

So he wants advice on the usefulness of the install. He sounds inexperienced because my posts concerned the solution to problems installing the Upgrade, a system problem he apparently has similar to mine which you fail to acknowledge.

 

[Craig234]

That is insulting...

Since he records an error from the system, to me that sounds like an inexperienced user with fear of the unknown...
What does he eventually say after you held his hand ?

OK, there's some irony there.

But I think you meant well, but there was a misunderstanding.

The error installing the patch is just sort of a happy accident giving me the chance to decide whether to install it or not instead of it having been automatically installed.

So it's not that I was worried about the process of installing the patch causing a problem - I assume that's pretty fixable - rather it was those earlier comments I recalled that the patch has bad things that I wanted to get an update on, to see if I want to fix those errors or not. Thanks for trying to help.

 

[Ketchup]

Craig, you might want to try manually downloading and installing KB3216755 from the Windows catalog and see if that improves things.

 

[Craig234]

Craig, you might want to try manually downloading and installing KB3216755 from the Windows catalog and see if that improves things.

Thanks - FYI I'm not havein any issues.

I'm just wondering whether to let Windows install that patch.

I'm not hearing any concerns now, suggesting maybe whatever issues it had have been removed.

I was expecting if there were still problems, people would be aware to quickly say why not to install it. I was skeptical about Windows 10 upgrade generally but seems fine.

 

[Craig234]

Well, found an issue. I told it to fix and upgrade, and first time it just seemed to get to 32% loaded then nothing, retried and eventually a window came up saying MS suggests not finishing the upgrade because it found music or video files using DRM no longer supported after this patch, so I cancelled it.

 

[mikeymikec]

Well, found an issue. I told it to fix and upgrade, and first time it just seemed to get to 32% loaded then nothing, retried and eventually a window came up saying MS suggests not finishing the upgrade because it found music or video files using DRM no longer supported after this patch, so I cancelled it.

Yeesh. Good ol' DRM. Do you know which media you have has DRM in?

 

[Craig234]

Yeesh. Good ol' DRM. Do you know which media you have has DRM in?

No idea. I have a bunch of MP3's from Amazon and I think elsewhere that might be it.