It's Mayday, so here's the WIndows 10 'April' update.

[Bryn]

My latest Windows 10 update (just over a week ago, I think) seems to have passed off uneventfully....

Those since the big 'April' update have been much less intrusive. Mainly security fixes.

[Old Grumpy]

I see what you mean Bryn! My computer decided to install this "April Update" today and it's still chuntering on...

... let's hope it's finished by JUNE!

OG

Edit:. Is this genuine Microsoft? - my laptop now displays the black screen of death

Still no fix as of MN last night...

[Old Grumpy]

For some reason your keyboard has been reset to US specification.

Yep, I got as far as "choose keyboard language"...


... mine, now would be Anglo-Saxon!

[rauschwerk]

Mine took less than two hours and it runs better than before, even though the C: drive is very full up. That will be corrected in a month's time when the windows.old folder disappears.

[Pianorak]

My April update has just finished - no problem, except had to restart Classic Shell myself which wasn't a problem either. (big sigh of relief!)

[ChrisBennell]

Still no fix as of MN last night...

Just a thought - I don't know what stage you got this"black screen", but my PC also froze during the "restart/reboot" process with a blank screen - and I have seen this happen before with updates; but I was able to continue by powering off and on again - and it picked up where it left off, and finished successfully. On a laptop you have to hold the power off button on for a few seconds to get it to switch off, and then power on again. Whole thing took about 3 hours on my machine.

Only thing that went wrong subsequently was that Adobe Photoshop Elements stopped working properly, but I was able to find a fix on-line after a complete day of searching.

[Old Grumpy]

Thanks. Tried that, to no avail. I will have to get the machine looked at.

OG

[Beresford]

Just a thought - I don't know what stage you got this"black screen", but my PC also froze during the "restart/reboot" process with a blank screen - and I have seen this happen before with updates; but I was able to continue by powering off and on again - and it picked up where it left off, and finished successfully. On a laptop you have to hold the power off button on for a few seconds to get it to switch off, and then power on again. Whole thing took about 3 hours on my machine. .

Yes- on my laptop I had to take the battery out to force a restart - the power button only made it go to sleep.

[LMcD]

Had a 'megaupdate' this morning. I just left the machine to get on with it, popping back every so often to check that everything was progressing satisfactorily. The whole thing took an hour and a bit. No problems (so far...)

[DracoM]

You wait................they're better than Pickfords.

[Bergonzi]

Probably best to move to a Mac, even if they are only just a bit better ...

[LMcD]

For some reason your keyboard has been reset to US specification.

Just discovered that this happened in my case too ...fortunately a problem readily soluble by even a confirmed 'technoprat' like me.