windoz 10

Dunno. You tell us.

no idea but it is BAD ....

Change over to Linux, it's free and so are all the programs

don't be silly I hate computers ....

indeed but It doesn't know I burn computers that annoy me .... did a desktop and a laptop so far.....

Just did the Patch Tuesday thirty minutes ago, and nothing to report.

My "winver" command is 19044.1766 (not all the computers need be patched to the same thing at the same time, but they should be reasonably close).

Paul

If the machine is booting from the hard drive, you can insert the Win10 installer DVD and run "setup.exe" off the DVD. That will kick off a Repair Install. When it says "I'm going to do a Repair Install, keeping your data files and user programs", you click the "OK" button and off it goes. It might take an hour or two, for the Migration Phase of a Repair Install. It won't necessarily be all that quick.

You can use MediaCreationTool (comes from the Microsoft download page) to make an 8GB or larger USB stick. This can be used on computers so modern, they have no optical drive. You can also use Rufus, from Rufus.ie web site, to prepare USB installer media from a downloaded Win10 ISO. But MediaCreationTool again, is the tool you want as "one stop shopping". Just start it running, insert a blank USB stick (8GB or larger) and off it goes.

For people who hate computers, that's what you do, because it preserves your stuff.

But if you have actual broken hardware (bad hard drive), that would be more work to deal with the details.

Paul

...nearly all the programs.... you can still pay for specialist stuff.

Eh? As far as I've heard only a malicious software removal tool was installed in the last few days. Maybe it removed it and left your puter unusable due to being unable to restore it. You could I guess, assuming it works, go into the whatever safe mode has become and take it back to before the update. I actually often find a registry saver every day can be handy as you simply tell the program to pt the old registry back. Brian

Ah its realised you hate it and gone on strike. Brian

Sounds like you might be a bit of a troll. If not prove it by giving us some details of what has happened. Brian

Exactly the same here. All up to date. Patches work flawlessly.

I just leave it to get on with keeping itself up to date.

That's what I got, without any problems too.

Go back to XP, Jim. You know it makes sense. [At least you won't get any 'upgrades'.]