Windows 10 updates playing havoc on computers

Chuck_thehammer wrote:
I had 10 on my laptop for 3 days... changed back to 7 Pro. last night..

power down will not work.. the back arrow does not work..

all forums.. after I log on. when I clicked onto a page to read.. windows would log me off and page would not show... saying you do not have a login account. but I was just logged in...
and sfc /scannow could not correct the errors.

to many issues .. and I am not spending hours on Microsoft's help line..

HP Probook 4540s... 8gb memory, 1tb drive. I7 processor.

I have been using Windows forever, not by choice but as the default standard. I have never spent a minute on a Microsoft helpline. The main reason for that is that my career was in IT but I learned to live in the Windows world unrelated to my IT work.

I have installed Windows 10 on all of my PCs (4) and many friends and clients with never a problem. The main thing one has to understand with Windows 10 is that it is Microsoft's move into the Apple/Google world of a single "account login." With Windows 10, Microsoft's default is to lead the PC owner into generating a Microsoft account that takes the place of the Windows local PC account (ignoring the world of enterprise networked computers with server accounts). This actually began with Windows Live pre-Windows 10 but not completely. This means Microsoft can compete with Apple and Google by managing all user account information in their cloud and thereby provide the associated benefits of automatic syncing user account information on all of a user's Windows devices/platforms.

This is fine for those that prefer the Windows world and want to move into the benefits available to Apple and Google users for some time. Since I am not one of those, I choose not to live in Windows world and I use the Google apps that I have used since their inception.

To do this, you have to avoid the default creation of a Microsoft account in the initial configuration of a new Windows 10 install and create a local Windows account. To the non-initiated, not recognizing this difference can lead to issues such as your post seems to indicate, but could be due to other issues.

I think the upgrade to Windows 10 is a paradigm shift in several ways and I think the lack of understanding those shifts leads to much of the dissatisfaction with Windows 10. In my view (and others I think) it is the best Windows version to date. But I just use it as an operating system platform for non-Microsoft applications, not as a Windows world application platform.