Nope! 361.43 same problem, 358.91 same problem, just rolled back the 1511 Windows build in the hopes that fixes it.
Demorve
2002
This is a shot in the dark suggestion, have you disabled fast start? I had trouble with the file becoming corrupt and causing a infinite loop at startup. If I understand fast start correctly, Win 10 uses a file to save your current state when you shut down and then uses this file to to load everything at startup. It doesn’t actually load any drivers from scratch. If this file gets corrupt a lot of things could happen, for instance, if the video driver is gets corrupted you might not know about it until you start stressing your card a little. This might give the impression that your drives are bad, but in reality their not just the fast startup file. I’d try disabling fast start before rolling back your computer build. The only consequence from disabling fast start is your computer will take a few seconds longer to boot.
Tman
2003
I’m on about hour 8 of my windows 10 upgrade, still on the line with a microsoft tech agent, I wanted to do this the easy way, with a fresh install to eliminate problems and boy oh boy has this just reinforced doing a clean install and not trying to upgrade my existing version.
So what I did was:
- Get a new HD and do a fresh install of Win 7 Pro on it. Then activate it, then push the win10 upgrade.
It worked like a charm. Complete upgrade. Bingo I’m on win 10! So easy I thought. So I start re-installing steam and other software. I get to blizzard and with no googling helping me, I copy over the blizzard.net directory from my old win 7 disk and it doens’t like it so I reboot.
And everything goes to shit.
Everything. I can’t even unplug my new win10 hard drive & reboot back to win 7 on my old drive! WTF!
So I’m on hour 3 with a MSFT tech agent (I got past the 1st line support in the first 10 minutes & have someone really competent). We got my win7 disk back and now we’re trying to get win10 repaired. My network is not very fast, so this is taking a long time.
I’m hesitant to blame blizzard, as it was about the 5th thing I was reinstalling before rebooting, but it’s looking really suspicous.
Where does Blizzard install it’s files? I’m trying to save myself all this time from re-downloading everything (Steam was a dream, it’s so easy), how in the fuck do I do blizzard and then origin (which I haven’t tried)
So IMPORTANT: Create a Repair disk on USB media before you start all this. This is what we’re trying right now. I wish i would have done this before doing all this.
Daagar
2004
That’s odd. As far as I know, battle.net is pretty self-contained - you in theory can move the folder around wherever, load it up, and just point it to your game locations and it’ll resort itself. I’ve done this a few times with OS reinstalls, and have never had an issue. Steam has been basically well-behaved in the same manner as well (though in Steam’s case, you typically run the installer again and just point to your existing Steam install folder - with battle.net, you typically just re-launch the .exe without needing to reinstall anything).
I’d be more inclined to think it is a driver that did it. Not even one you necessarily put on yourself, but possibly one that Win10 put on for you at some point after your clean install and prior to your reboot.
I’ve never had success with an “upgrade” to Win10, I always perform a clean install.
Even upgrading Win10 to 1511 was a convoluted process for me. I had to detach all the internal and external drives (except the OS drive of course) and my DVD drive, or 1511 wouldn’t install in my gaming rig (would get stuck at 23%). I still have no idea why that worked!
Tman
2006
So I quit at 4:30am on the 2nd reinstall of win10 and let it finish this morning. Everything seems to be operational. I found my problem with Diablo / Battle.net - I had copied over the Battle.net directories from the c:\ProgramFiles (x86) but didn’t get the battle.net directory off of c:\programdata - which confused me because ProgramData appears to be a virtual directory & not a physical one. I’m still not sure where that is physically located, but once I copied that over to my win10 instance, I was able to run Diablo.
Now I get to try Origin…
Tman
2007
Holy shit. So I enable my office365 subscription on win10 and it overwrites my win10 account password with my microsoft store account password. So I had to use lastpass on my phone to even see what it was because fuck if I care what my office365 account is.
I can’t believe this. I don’t need a secure password on my pc in my own house. I do want a secure password on my office365 account.
Fuck Microsoft.
The thing i hate about automatic, forced windows updates is that many of the updates are not critical. Why the fuck should you be bugging me every few days about updates to internet explorer or microsoft keyboard center, neither of which i use?
stusser
2009
If they didn’t all seem to force a reboot, I wouldn’t give a shit. But, they do. They all do.
They really need a new advertising campaign.
Microsoft Windows 10: What the hell do you think you’re doing today?
You guys are sure having a rough time of it. Not like this has affect me one way or another, so I am not sure what’s up with your experience.
As to log ins, there is a very good phone app from Microsoft that should help a lot.
How does that work?
I’m not having the same problem as Tman, but I dread having to remember a complex password for inside my house.
Microsoft account on the Android play store might help? I haven’t used it myself but others have. Provides simple two step authication so a simpler password will work. You can also create a second account pretty east and give it full privelges
The MS auth app on Android (and I assume Windows phones, hehe) is awesome. You get a notification with the request ID and allow/deny buttons - no code to copy or nuthin’ like that. Wish all auth apps were this simple. Wish MS could engineer that simplicity into other UX as well :D
I want to use it, but its also on the the family computer and linked to one drive which my my wife uses. Should I just set up a new account for my wife and family?
Tman
2016
God I hate that MSFT auth app. I have it, but unlike what seems like every other living person, when I get home, my cell phone is put with my keys and wallet and I rarely look it, so whenever these stupid authentications are needed, I have to go upstairs to grab my phone.
Cyrano
2017
There is no MS authorization app for Windows phone, which is kind of a sore point.
Wow. They really are something special, aren’t they?
Well here we go. I got my video card in the mail today, put it in, turned computer on, card seems fine. Try to install nVIDIA drivers. Fails without error. Try installing driver from the device manager. Fails without error.
Sigh.
Why do I have a feeling this is going to end with me completely reinstalling Windows?
