Fucking Windows 8/8.1

[johan]

Windows FUCKING 8.

That's why the first thing I always do after fresh installation is to immediately disable all updates! Saves a lot of headaches later.

Good advice for a small handful, but very bad advice for all.

[rado84]

That's why the first thing I always do after fresh installation is to immediately disable all updates! Saves a lot of headaches later.

Good advice for a small handful, but very bad advice for all.

Not a bad advice at all. Windows has never been good at updating. There's always something to go bad after the update - that is if the update runs smoothly. It was like that since day 1 of XP and it's still the same nowadays.

[I_am_not_mafia]

I woke up to discover it never finished the updates.... and it was an update loop where it would keep failing to update and then it would say "Undoing updates" and then restart and then fail the updates and undo them all over them again.

I had to refresh my PC back to Windows 8.

Windows 7 occasionally does that for me. You can select which updates to install. Only one of them will be failing. So go through the list one at a time and install each one until you come across the one that makes Windows revert updates. When you find it, you have the option to ignore that update. Then you can do the other updates. Other than security concerns, it's one reason why you should make sure to update regularly. The more updates it keeps trying to install and then revert the longer it takes.

I assume that this is still the case for Windows 8 onwards.

[Excited Penguin]

I skipped from win7 to win10.... so... that should tell you something.
Avoid win8 like the plague, I did.
If you can, my advice is to let it upgrade to win10.

This. I did the exact same thing 

I don't even know what windows 8 is like. I imagine the worst.


@OP, install W10. Most def!