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| Thread ID: 144325 | 2017-09-16 11:12:00 | Windows 10 1703 Creators upgrade on HP Spectre x360 | ledzep (1441) | Press F1 |
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| 1439235 | 2017-09-16 11:12:00 | The Windows 10 1703 Creators upgrade finally arrived for me. Two PC's upgraded fine, but my new HP laptop which had only just been built and had only a little software installed, did not go smoothly. The symptoms were extremely long login time on restart - approx 7.5 minutes with a blank screen after entering login userid and password. Task manager could be started, but the desktop took forever to appear. Checked the forums and others had reported similar problems with HP laptops, but nobody had posted a solution. I spent a day, tried everything, progressively removing the HP bloatware, but couldn't fix it. Finally I created a USB media set and did a clean boot, reinstalled my software, and now everything is working fine. I still don't know what the problem was, so can't help anyone else with the same problem other than suggesting they do the same - clean boot. (Windows 10 home edition). | ledzep (1441) | ||
| 1439236 | 2017-09-16 21:33:00 | my new HP laptop which had only just been built Don't you mean only just been purchased ? You don't build laptops, they come ready to go from the manufacture. If it had just been manufactured then it will have already had 1703 on it. You will find if its upgraded to 1703 that it could have actually been manufactured last year. 1703 means 2017 / March, so HP would have had the OS well before that and it would have been manufactured at least February. As for the slowness-- that's typical of HP. The best thing to do with a HP is wipe its drive of all the hidden partitions ( often 5-7 ) and reinstall W10 from fresh. Their pre installed software and rubbish really does downgrade their capable performance, and gives many problems. Theres several things that can be turned off to get them stable, its been mentioned in this forum many times. :) Finally I created a USB media set and did a clean boot, Sure you're talking about the right thing ?? A clean boot is when you start a computer by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. Theres no need to reinstall Software. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1439237 | 2017-09-17 01:32:00 | Probably means a clean install.... | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1439238 | 2017-09-17 04:46:00 | Probably means a clean install.... More than likely. But its a really annoying when people use the wrong terms, esp when its completely different to what is actually done, or trying to fault find when not actually in front of the computer. Some people claim they have 1TB of Memory yet don't know the difference between a Hard Drive and Memory. ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1439239 | 2017-09-17 22:30:00 | I was using the term "built" with regards to software. For clarity, the laptop was very new but didn't have the creators update 1703 installed. That happened automatically as Microsoft intend with the Windows 10 Home Edition about a week later, and that is when it stopped functioning properly. That is the annoying thing here, which maybe I didn't make clear in my opening post. I had just set the new laptop up using HP's pre-installed image (ie software image, not a photo) and their "jumpstart" utility. Personally, I had only installed MS Office, Acrobat reader, Chrome and one or two other utilities. It was for all intents and purposes "clean" as per sold by HP. And the Windows 10 1703 Creators upgrade didn't work. You advice about wiping the HP hidden partitions and recovery partition sounds right. Yes, a clean INSTALL of Windows 10 using the Windows Media Creator Tool was required to fix the problem. A clean install of the Creators 1703 has the laptop functioning beautifully (ie running fine, not as in flower). I've reinstalled my Office software and utilities, but resisted the temptation to reinstall HP Jumpstart - I don't think it is of much use, other than there was a useful summary of the system configuration with Bios level and serial numbers etc which saves me diving into the Bios, but I'm sure I could get the same from another utility (is SiSoft Sandra still around?). | ledzep (1441) | ||
| 1439240 | 2017-09-17 22:55:00 | HP & other Brands pre-install so much crapware/bloatware that its no surprise really. No such thing as a 'clean" "as sold by HP" :) Installing Creators update(update not fresh install) via CD seems to work better than via Winupdate The Win 'fast start' default option seems to cause alot of issues as well. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1439241 | 2017-09-18 02:20:00 | Maybe related to this: www.theregister.co.uk |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1439242 | 2017-09-18 04:41:00 | That link to theregister was exactly the issue I experienced. I did try an update from USB stick prior to doing a clean install, but it didn't work for me. I did roll back the 1703 update twice, confirming that operation was okay prior to the update. I also tried turning the fast boot off, which was mentioned by a number of sites. It didn't work for me. I tried dozens of other things as well, but not the "app readiness" that was mentioned in the article. I'm not sure what that means. It has obviously affected a lot of people with HP laptops. | ledzep (1441) | ||
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