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Windows 10 Updates EVERY day

Apr 15, 2018 12:29PM PDT

Windows updater is doing an update every day sometimes twice a day... It's really affecting my work especially now that they sign you out without letting you do it when you're not busy. I was wondering if this is supposed to be happening or if it's something wrong with my PC. I know there's this huge roll out of something but it seems like at this frequency there must be something going on. Does this sound like the right update schedule or should I be worried something isn't updating correctly on my system?

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All good here.
Apr 15, 2018 12:49PM PDT

I wonder if you have some other security suite that is interfering with the OS update and it fails, then retries. I've seen that.

Tell more. I can write it's very unusual but with only the story so far, can't guess why other than the usual.

Here? Just W10, Windows defender and not much else going on.

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RE: Windows 10 updates EVERY day
Apr 15, 2018 1:18PM PDT

There seems to be two ways that it's trying to update. About a month ago a program popped up on my desktop called Windows 10 Update Assistant. When I click on that a screen pops up that says its 'working in the background' and have the options to either learn more or hide the window. It is after these that it forces the update without giving an option to reschedule or postpone. It says that these updates are security updates.

Then there are updates that only show up when I go to turn off the computer. I will see the option to 'update and shut down' in place of the normal 'shut down' and usually pick that. Those are the least intrusive.

Then there are update screens that pop up and say they are going to sign me out but then give me an option to reschedule. As the timing is never good I usually opt for the reschedule. I think those are the ones that happen when I opt to 'update and shut down' but I'm not sure.

Since it takes so long to update I usually let my computer be for the hour or so it takes. However, there have been two times where I have seen the screen change to blakc and have the words printed 'restoring previous version of windows'. That seems pretty fishy to me but not sure how to resolve it.

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While not much to go on. How long has it been since????
Apr 16, 2018 12:05PM PDT

How long has it been since you ran CHKDSK on your drives?

Before you do, I always remind folk to backup what they can't lose. CHKDSK so far has been a non-issue but once in a while you encounter a PC that is on the edge with a drive on the verge of failure so I always write to backup what you can't lose. Which we should do anyway.

So with that aside try the usual CHKDSK /F /R /X on each drive letter. This will take time.
Link will follow. Also, is there a good number of GB free on each drive?

Read https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/fix-hard-drives-chkdsk-windows-10/

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That's not normal
Apr 17, 2018 3:09AM PDT

Maybe a stupid question, but have you tried scanning your system for malware? That is the first thing I'd do to make sure that nothing malicious is messing with the system. Something is definitely going on for sure, and you should not just ignore it.