Yesterday evening I got the message, Restart needed for updates (or however it’s phrased), and there was a restart button, so I hit it. The updates did their thing (light blue screen) and then rebooted. When the screen came back on, it was black, with the “working” icon (little circle of dots in motion-- does Microsoft have a name for that?). Well, that ran for an hour or so, and I got on my kindle and read that I should let it run for at least three hours before I gave up. So I went to bed.
Naturally, when I got up this morning and and looked, the little circle was still running-- no words on the screen, just black with the circle-of-dots.
I used the power button to shut off the computer and did a little more research on my kindle. Then after a few minutes, I simultaneously pushed ctrl-alt-delete AND the power button. The DELL logo came up, then the black screen, which momentarily showed the blue Windows logo, and then the words “restoring your previous version of Windows,” and the circle-of-dots. Eventually the desktop was back, and then in the notifications area, “We could not finish installing updates,” to which I replied, “No fucking joke.”
This happened at least once before that I can remember, and I never did attempt to locate and install those updates, unless they were automatically included in the next sweep. I have Windows 10Pro, 64 bit, Version 1511, Build 10586.753 on a Dell PCM6700 laptop, which I’ve had for about four years and love like a puppy.
Any advice/suggestions for the next time this happens?
(Should this be in IMHO? Move, if necessary.)