3569

Yeah the last few updates have only added two things I care about, exploit protection ala EMET in Windows Defender and the GPU utilization in task manager. All the “marquee” new features are useless to me.

3570

Off the current train of discussion, but a reinstall of Office fixed this issue I had a few months back.

3571

Well, I got the Fall Creator’s Update yesterday. And of course it broke something, specifically sleep mode. I can put the computer to sleep, but it won’t wake back up. Did some web searching and it looks like a lot of people have the issue, but there’s no common solution. Anyone had similar problems?

3572

Yes, got a Dell with that issue recently. Now that you mention it, it did update recently. I suspect it’s crashing either when it tries to go to sleep mode, or when it’s waking up.

I disabled sleep mode and told them to shut it down manually for now.

3573

If it’s a Dell XPS laptop they borked their bios for awhile in regards to sleep mode. The latest upgrade fixed it for me but for awhile there I wanted to strangle Dell.

3574

This is on my desktop, not a laptop. It’s an Alienware machine, so it is a Dell. Hasn’t been a BIOS update in years that I know of. Guess I could check, but I’d be pretty surprised if there was anything significant.

3575

My Windows updates alternately enable and disable sleep mode. Every other update it seems to change behavior (and as of the recent update, it now goes to sleep for real when idle).

3576

Yeah my Dell desktop does the same, appears to be working at the moment. My laptops stay down like champs.

3577

Yep, just checked, no BIOS updates available. Probably just stuck with it until the next update. Because I can’t imagine Microsoft is busy working on it.

3578

I’ve been shutting down my laptop every night for a while due to updates screwing with sleep.

3579

I’ve had intermittent problems with waking from sleep mode after the update.

3580

Old indian trick. Try drinking two glasses of water before you go to bed at night.

3581

I got the Creators Update this Sunday, and once a again, my computer is auto-rebooting for patches. Every fucking time I need to deal with this issue. So I google this, and it says to go to the task scheduler --> update orchestrator and disable the reboot task.

Well I go there and it already IS disabled. Under the triggers, there is an entry for when my computer rebooted itself tonight.

With this new major update, how do I disable auto reboots for patches? I fucking hate microsoft.

3582

It’s more than just disabling the trigger. You need to do this stuff.

3583

My wife’s 5 year old Lenovo computer has never been the same since being upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. It’s slow as hell and just generally unresponsive. I’ve done virus scans and nothing comes up so it doesn’t seem to be virus related. I want to nuke the whole thing from orbit and do a clean install using Windows 10’s reset function. Should that be a fairly painless experience? When my wife bought the computer it came with a pre-installed version of Microsoft Office. If I do a reset that will be gone with no way to get it back, right? (other than buying a new license, of course).

3584

If Office is associated with your Microsoft account you should be able to go to http://www.office.com/setup and reinstall it after authenticating. Otherwise, check for a product sticker with a key somewhere-- it may have come with your computer. You can also contact Lenovo support of course.

3585

I know Win 7 is going out of support and all but isn’t it better to restore from a factory setting? You get Win 7, the speed for an older machine and Office remains intact. I would do that.

3586

If you have the OEM restore image you could do that and then upgrade to Win10, sure.

3587

If the machine is already activated on Win10 the activation servers will remember it.

I’d do a complete clean install. Nuke the partitions, use the media creation tool, and start with Windows 10 1709 from scratch.

But that’s just me.

3588

I guess one of the options is to go back to the factory state. That would put it back to Windows 7, right? One thing that concerns me is if I did a clean install then I would lose all the drivers specific to the laptop. It’s a Japanese OS so I don’t want to have to go trawling the internet looking for something that will make the special function keys work properly.