Microsoft patches problematic OS to deal with SSD woes A chink of light has appeared in the wall of Windows 10 update woes in the form of a patch that should address the SSD problems plaguing the OS. The patch, KB4100403, was emitted by the software giant yesterday and brings the version number of the troubled OS to 17134.81. Tucked away among minor tweaks for time zones and …
If you use RemoteApps, do not install the April Update (v.1803), it would break it.
For the ones having problems of Z-Order with RemoteApps using W10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), you can install patch KB4103714 which should fix the problem.
For the ones who didn't update, you made the right choice :-/
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An alternative fix is to migrate your Win10 box into a VM and let a proper OS handle the hard work of talking to actual hardware. Most peripherals now talk over virtualisable channels like USB, so this is much less limiting than it used to be. As an added advantage, you can snapshot the system prior to the upgrade and then use your VM host's options to *really* roll back the update if it goes wrong.
Unless you are dependent on Win10 having full access to your display adapter, this approach has very few downsides these days.
First rule I learned when I moved to a professional software support role was: Never Update Your Users Until You Are Sure That The Release Is A Stable One. That's why I said No (and still am) to Win 10.
In fact, I personally think "updating" a Windoze machine is a bad idea and for my personal machine would only ever buy a new one designed for the OS in question. For example, I dread what problems the NHS are goign to have in upgrading to Win10. For goodness sake, Win 7 from XP usually produced a machine slower than a very slow thing
In contrast, I don't care much about the OS that a given machine came with. I'm buying the hardware, as far as I am concerned, and the software that comes preinstalled on there is just a bunch of fluff for people who aren't technically inclined and only know how to turn it on. I'd prefer to get them with no OS or preinstalled software at all if it meant they were cheaper, but few laptops offer this as an option (desktops I buy in pieces, so they never come with an OS).
I'll never use 10 unless some huge changes take place (which I do not foresee), so I'm on my own as far as new hardware goes. It means any place I buy any new laptop from has to have a good return policy, so that if I am not able to get a reasonable OS working to my standards, I can reject it as the unfit product it is. Something that only works with 10 is not a product that deserves to be in the marketplace... saddle it with that malware prior to distribution if you must, but don't make it mandatory.
Redhat: Here are some patches.
Redhat customer: Thanks they worked great.
Microsoft: Here are some patches.
Microsoft customer: AAAARRRRGGGHHHH my laptop is dead.
Microsoft customer: HELP ME!!!!!
Microsoft customer: I'VE lost everything.
Microsoft customer: I cant even work.
Microsoft: Here are some patches.
Microsoft customer: It's fixed, you're wonderful, thank you so much, you're the best company ever, even better than Apple.
And that is how you skew customer perception, take them to the depths of hell and bring them back, the sense of relief causes a feeling of euphoria that no logic can counter. There used to be an IT company in the UK called Phoenix that used the very same trick to make it's directors very rich.
Fast Startup is a hybrid sleep function. If you want to disable it permanently, you will need to change your S3 state to off, and another other deep sleep function to off in your bios. Not an ideal solution for all, but then again windows 10 doesn't give us a lot of options for permanent solutions.
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