[deanhills]

That started happening with the 1809 feature release and never really sorted itself out and that's why I went back to Mac.

What a coincidence @tbelldesignco  That was the exact point where I changed back to Windows 7.  One of the updates caused my Thinkpad Laptop screen to go black.  When I Googled it I found that this issue was all over.  So Microsoft must know there is an issue as it was even documented at their support discussion forum.  I then accepted that I'll never get away with hardware that isn't compatible with Windows 10.

@sagher has given me a good pointer though.  To just turn Windows 10 updates off.  That is also something I found, like hundreds of quality tutorials how to turn off updates permanently.  I don't think we're the exception here. There are many MANY users who are very frustrated with Windows 10 updates.

The fact one can do it though - fiddle with the Windows 10 settings, probably is a testimony to how leaky and inferior Windows 10 updates are from a technical point of view.  Marketing wise Windows 10 has the whole world at its feet.  And probably keeping every one at its feet with having a leaky OS that requires an infinite number of updates all of the time.  And not really caring that so many systems can't work with all of the updates.  Like probably looking at failed instances of the updates as collateral damage only.