It's Windows 10 Home on my office PC that is causing me major headaches. It keeps trying to install the Creators update and failing...:crazy: Lesson learned: always go for at least for Pro with anything.

I have one system running Windows 7 Ultimate that I use for sound. Worked fine, but Windows Update is broken so I need to do something manual, which I've forgotten...:unsure:

My main system for iClone and related runs Windows 10 Pro and so far without problems. There is an Windows Update option to set it as a working in a business environment (or something like that), and that avoids most silliness. Any "features" are deferred as long as possible. I found Windows 7 becoming problematic so I did upgrade one machine and choose Windows 10 for a new build.

The "panic" about QuickTime was indeed only related to the web player. You never know if these "warnings" are from haters or based on fact. When trying to find reliable information you find a lot of pedantic people... Very different from here, obviously!

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Are you talking about from 8 to 10?  If so, yeah, my system is MUCH more stable and performs better on such things as drive searches (always important to me as I have 30+ TBs of stuff to search through, among many NAS drives).

Overall drivers are much better and less conflicted.  Now, if you mean the recent Win 10 "creator's Update" (or whatever the heck MS likes to call these things) it's still too early to tell, although I did erase the old version off my disc.

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Alienware Aurora R16, Win 11, i9-149000KF, 3.20GHz CPU, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090 (24GB), Samsung 870 Pro 8TB, Gen3 MVNe M-2 SSD, 4TBx2, 39" Alienware Widescreen Monitor
Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Did anyone have any performance improvements following update to Win 10?   

To the people still using quicktime because it is required: I too was a slave to quicktime because i needed it for the video engine inside cubase (thankfully it is no longer the case), what you can do to protect your computer is to install/reinstall quicktime with only the core of quicktime, no player and no web browser plugin (this last two are the vulnerable parts). That way you can still operate premiere or after effects safely.

To the people suffering with windows 10 updates, change you windows update settings to delay this type of updates, you will still receive security updates but you will let others beta test the update for you, by the time your machine updates most if not all the installation woes should be fixed. Iclone is becoming a more and more complex software, which means that it is quite possible that some dependencies or libraries are changed when updating and the whole process might turn your iclone into a 3d realtime crash machine (not RL fault). Mostly the issues can arise from changes to the way the os talks to the hardware, or some change to internal locations or just a plain old screw up. Doing this is a good practice with advanced software, because 7 out of 10 times there are issues with updates, and if you make money with your software an update conflict can really $%&# you up. So in a nutshell, always install your security updates as soon as available, and update the os features when you have time to toubleshoot or when your software maker tells you it is safe to update.

Maybe RL could help its users this way, test their software on the new update, and just warn us when weird behaviour is expected. Steinberg does this all time, they tell you if you should  upgrade or not, if any issues appear they warn you and then they release a patch if applicable. it is a slow process, might take them a month or two to fully test the software, but surely the warning saves a lot of headaches, studio downtime, and near heart attack episodes, not to mention all the underwear that is saved.

Yeah, like Wires my four computers had no issues with any of the Win 10 updates, including the latest (although the latest DID remove the manifest trick, apparently either iClone fixed things on their end or Win 10 adjusted things, but now I don't need it).

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Alienware Aurora R16, Win 11, i9-149000KF, 3.20GHz CPU, 64GB RAM, RTX 4090 (24GB), Samsung 870 Pro 8TB, Gen3 MVNe M-2 SSD, 4TBx2, 39" Alienware Widescreen Monitor
Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Really sorry to hear that at least I now know it wasn't something I did but on the other hand I am still awaiting a diagnostic report from the repair shop fingers crossed.

Windows is melting mainboards????:w00t:

Gerry

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System: Win 10 Pro (21H2), Asus X99-E WS, CPU i7-5930K -3,5 GHz, 32 GB DDR4 2666-16 RAM, NVidia GTX 1080 Ti GPU - 11 GB VRAM(Driver Studio-536.99), Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB SSD, 6 TB HD storage.

I have 7 computers two of them had a meltdown with the latest Windows update. I managed to fix the problems with my main computer by going to the Microsoft website and going through the process of fixing the updates. It is a known problem. I spent two days with Microsoft working on the other computer. It turned out that I had to replace the motherboard and reinstall all the software. These are all known issues.
   

Oh well we live and learn all be it the hard way will have to take the Windows update off auto should know better

Maybe I'm just one of the lucky ones, but Windows update hasn't caused me any problems so far. I have Windows Pro and have it set up to inform me when updates are available, and they only get installed when I know that nothing else is running that could be interrupted.

I also have QuickTime Pro installed as Media Composer, Boris Red, Squeeze and a few other Apps still use it for some tasks, but a Win update has never prevented it from working - never mind uninstalled it.

Gerry

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System: Win 10 Pro (21H2), Asus X99-E WS, CPU i7-5930K -3,5 GHz, 32 GB DDR4 2666-16 RAM, NVidia GTX 1080 Ti GPU - 11 GB VRAM(Driver Studio-536.99), Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB SSD, 6 TB HD storage.