Yeah this latest batch of updates has really shat the bed. For some reason it told me that my version wouldn't be supported much longer. Not sure why it's telling me that because it seems to update itself once every couple of weeks. At least that's what I assume it's doing when I leave it idle for an hour or so, come back into the room and it's rebooted itself. 

Then these latest ones just don't want to install. It's had three goes at it so far and it's again telling me I need to restart to complete the install process. Shambolic.

Had to update some drivers after this, nothing too bad, but it's giving me end of life Vista flashbacks.

Win 7 master race reporting in.

Will continue to be on the master race version for some time.

While we're in here though, MS announced a bunch of new devices including a folding phone:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/2/20895128/microsoft-surface-duo-phone-foldable-screen-features-specs-price-release-date

MS abandon pretty much every new venture/idea/hardware apart from Windows and the xbox brand.

Bone2 integration will no doubt be pimped. Streaming and cheevos and cross play and dual screen and shit.

Yeah having android and not Windows os on the phone itself is the thing. But would take a lot for me to switch off from iOS now.

Windows Phone was fucking awesome though. If it had app support it would've been baller.

Buy a mac

Will recovery mode nuke my disk content??

Hmm couldn't get the basic repair or restore to work. Sigh.

What happens, how far does it get??

If yo hold the shift key down you boot do you get any options??

edit: the repair and restore options mentioned above sound like they may risk data loss

edit2: try pressing F4 (safe mode) or F5 (safe mode with internet) while it's booting up, just keep tapping one of them

It's probably windows update that borked your boot up. Try to get into safe mode and see if you can uninstall the update.
If all that fails try a w10 usb stick and see if that can repair your w10 boot up.

This is why I hate w10 nowadays. The borked update cycle and the incessant spying. Migrating the home pc to Linux is becoming a seriously attractive proposal every year, especially with that solid steam support.

Unusual latest feature update failed for me

New PC. After many, many years.  Well - it's actually a Dell Workstation refurb - big beast of a bast - is huge!!!       Cost a grand but the Dell site has a 50% deal for Precision workstations so I took it. It's a bit of pot luck re what you get so I'll add an SSD and it only has a network card in it so I will need to get a wireless card. Have temp-moved the wireless card from my old PC to get me going. Have to get a Displayport adaptor for my HDMI monitor too. That's arriving today.

Getting back into dev and I'm starting with Visual Studio before I look at other stuff. That's what my experience is closest too. The workstation is way over specced for its recommended requirements.

If you have anything of value. Photos. Offline backup. Cloud is great and all but I still burn all my photos on DVD - twice. Ransomware just isn't worth the risk.
 
New PC is Windows 10 of course and there's no point fighting it - just suffer auto updates.

My old PC is running Windows 10 OK but I'm going to see if I can get my old one to go to an OS that will run my old MAME build with a compatible complete ROM set I bought off some guy on eBay donkeys years ago.

It's a really old version that will run in DOS - is there a way to just have DOS on a PC? That means I can use ArcadeOS which is a great front end for it. Think I used it in W98 - which the last of the DOS based OSes.

XP was a great old OS but Windows 7 was so good because it was built from scratch and they had hired the guy who built VMS which is a bullet proof OS from the mainframe days that is still running mission critical stuff all over the world.