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HP Users Complain About 10-Minute Login Lag During 'Win 10 Update' (theregister.co.uk)
A number of HP device owners are complaining of seeing black screens for around five to 10 minutes after entering their Windows login information. From a report: They appear to be pointing the finger of blame at Windows 10 updates released September 12 for x64-based systems. One, a quality update called KB4038788, offered a whopping 27 bullet points for general quality improvements and patches, such as an "issue that sometimes causes Windows File Explorer to stop responding and causes the system to stop working." Another, KB4038806, was a "critical" patch for Adobe Flash Player that allowed remote code execution.
HP doesn't believe in SSDs. I think they literally believe SSDs are just a myth. So yes, expect login delays as Windows 10 runs a small Defender scan EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU LOG IN! And don't forget indexing and superfetch. But I've noticed that there is a huge CPU bomb of a recompile after the latest update. It processed on a rather fast PC of mine for at least 5 minutes. Still, 1 CPU core and minimum I/O hit on the SSD meant I could still operate the computer at least.
We're now seeing Windows 10 machines losing their trust relationship with the DC.
The only way to fix it is to drop and rejoin, but you need a local admin account (or one specifically privileged for those domain operations) on the machine to be able to do that.
And our imaging process sets a random password for the admin account and disables it. Because these are domain machines only and we want them to be secure.
So now we have to hope we've got cached domain admin credentials on these boxes (since we started Windows 10 deployments only recently, it seems like we do so far), unplug from the network, login with cached credentials, create an admin account, drop and rejoin, kill off the admin account, etc.
Fucking Windows 10 every fucking time. FUCK YOU MS!
It is my opinion that MS is simply technologically incompetent, and have ended up building something so complicated that even they don't understand what the heck is going on. I don't look for it to get any better, and Windows 7 is my last Windows. It's just a big hot ripe mess. The updating retardedness is just one manifestation of this.
But seriously, it seems like everything they do is an order of magnitude more complicated than it needs to be. They should never have tried to make one Windows to rule them all, thereby attempting to turn desktops into smart phones. IMO, that was a fatal mistake - they should have had two separate lines, desktop and phone-tablet-touchy-feely. Now desktop Windows is a Frankenstein monster, with the good win32 desktop bolted onto the Metro (whatever they're calling it this week) nonsense. Sorry, I do NOT want my desktop looking like airport signage.