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Microsoft Fixes Windows 10 Anniversary Update Freezing Issues (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the windows-update dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Anniversary Update may have introduced a whole host of new features but it has also caused a fair number of problems for Windows 10 users. Among the most annoying issues reported since its release in late-July are freezes on systems equipped with SSDs. Microsoft has acknowledged the problem and provided a couple of workarounds that users could try, promising that a permanent fix would eventually be made available. Microsoft now says that it has addressed the freezing issues in the latest Cumulative Update that it just released. "After the launch of the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, Microsoft received a small number of reports of Windows 10 freezing when signing into Windows after installing the Anniversary Update. With the help of users and MVP's who posted on this thread an investigation determined that a small fraction of users who had moved app information to a second logical drive could encounter this issue," explains Microsoft.

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  1. SSD Hell by A10Mechanic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Six months ago Windows 10 ate my SSD array. Totally creamed it, with no recovery possible. Glad to see they're making progress on the issue, he said tongue-in-cheek.

    1. Re:SSD Hell by rubycodez · · Score: 2

      We non-consensual forced upgraders to windows 10 on SSD drives should be especially heartened by this news

      go Microsoft!

    2. Re:SSD Hell by phishybongwaters · · Score: 2

      I've had no issues with win10 on my ssd. I have, however, had the issue with it rebooting, or thinking it rebooted, when coming out of sleep. Anniversary update flipped that back on. mind you, I'm not doing RAID so I suspect that's the issue, you'd think MS would have tested this a little

    3. Re:SSD Hell by FrankHaynes · · Score: 2

      A big source of trouble that is most overlooked is simply clean a.c. power. SO MANY PROBLEMS without ready explanation can be solved by providing clean u.p.s. power to the computer and yet too many home and small business users carelessly don't bother.

      If it's a laptop or battery-operated handheld device that is not an issue, but for traditional desktop machines it certainly is.

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    4. Re:SSD Hell by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 2

      That doesn't make it any less the most complained about and bug riddled OS that MS has released.

      Citation needed...

      And I say that seriously, with no snark... The complaints on Slashdot frankly don't count, the Linux zealots here really aren't unbiased enough to have an objective viewpoint.

      I deal every day with people who wouldn't know a MHz from a GHz, they just want to use their computer and get on with life. Without exception, Windows 10 works fine, I don't see all the problems with it that others do, and this includes running it on everything from brand new machines to 10 year old Core2Duo machines.

      People love to complain, but I'm just not seeing the issue... And complaints about privacy don't count when it comes to "crashes and bugs", that is a separate issue and one that I find to be rather hypocritical coming from people with Google accounts and Android phones and who use credit cards and reward cards and who drive cars that track them anyway...

      MS is way late to this party...

      I personally drive a GM truck that has OnStar, I carry an iPhone with location services turned on, I use GMail for everything, and I pay for everything everywhere with plastic. I would be completely delusional to think that somehow Microsoft is going to be the source of all my privacy woes. That ship has sailed and isn't coming back.

  2. ya know, microsoft... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if updates weren't forced down our throats, maybe only a small percentage of users would be affected by a bad update before you got your shit together and fixed it....

    WE ARE NOT YOUR BETA TESTERS.

    1. Re:ya know, microsoft... by TimSSG · · Score: 2
      Actually, I am afraid we are now MS beta testers. Does the minimal wage laws apply for beta testers? Tim S.

      if updates weren't forced down our throats, maybe only a small percentage of users would be affected by a bad update before you got your shit together and fixed it....

      WE ARE NOT YOUR BETA TESTERS.

    2. Re:ya know, microsoft... by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 2

      Actually, Microsoft gets Windows 10's newer updates out to tens of thousands of beta testers months in advance. They work though the entire development process, with some only receiving updates a month before they go into production, others receiving new features much earlier. Shit happens when you take something that works for 80,000 users and put it on 80,000,000 users's hardware and unique software configurations.

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    3. Re:ya know, microsoft... by rastos1 · · Score: 2

      Shit happens when you take something that works for 80,000 users and put it on 80,000,000 users's hardware and unique software configurations.

      You know that. I know that. Everybody here knows that. Microsoft however, does not. Or, more likely, they do not care. All they have to do is to let the user choose what updates to install and when.

    4. Re:ya know, microsoft... by pkinetics · · Score: 2

      On top of it,the 80k testers are strongly recommended to test in a VM environment, so they aren't even testing on their actual devices. So no wonder things like "hey we changed how video works cause it works fine in VMs" backfires.

  3. I haven't run into this issue either, but ... by King_TJ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are definitely quite a few misc. problems and quirks involved with running Windows 10 -- and surely more with the "Anniversary edition" update.

    One odd thing I've noticed is that I run a Surface Pro 4 (Microsoft's OWN hardware, so should be completely optimized for Win 10!), and it seems to occasionally lose contact with my Microsoft branded bluetooth mouse. It doesn't happen *often*, but I'd say if I leave my system running and attached to its dock, and don't come back to it for a couple days, there's a good probability the mouse won't work. Turning the mouse off/on again does nothing. Only real solution I've found is a Windows restart. I think I lose control of the mouse like this once or maybe twice while in the middle of using the computer too, during the middle of the day. So I can't really blame this entirely on a "sleep mode" problem or what-not.

  4. Re:What the assholes at Microsoft with their toy-O by JamesTRexx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's at times like this that I'm glad I was able to dump Windows many years ago and had at least at home a fun computing environment.

    Too bad I still have to fix stupid stuff on Windows server, Exchange and other proprietary software.

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  5. Baloney by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm typing this on my Windows 10 laptop and it is working fi

  6. Adios Windows/Microsoft by LeftCoastThinker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just more confirmation that Windows 7 will be my last windows version, ever. When Windows 7 stops getting security updates/gets crippled by MS update I will go Ubuntu/SteamOS for my desktop and console for my gaming.

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    1. Re:Adios Windows/Microsoft by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 2

      You should disable the Windows Update Service from Windows 7, now. And I am well aware of the security problem that this will cause, but lately the microsoft updates are causing more problems than a virus.

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