Dell Alienware Aurora-R3 & Windows 10 Build 1709 (Fall Creators Edition)

Hi!

I have the same model of PC and thus an identical problem. I have also successfully been using the same workaround, i.e. shutting down the computer in order to avoid the freeze, for all updates up until 1709. This update is different since it is persistent and forces itself on the user. The really bad news is that it can actually fail to roll-back and I have already had to make a complete re-install of Windows. Unfortunately with loss of data since the disc somewhere along the Windows up-date path has been converted to an MBR partition table and must be wiped before it is back-converted to GPT, so that the Windows CD can be used to re-install.

One error that keeps popping up is 0x80070652, i.e. meaning that a previous installation has not been completed successfully.  This is usually fixed by a re-boot, but this one just won't let go.

The Windows Update Troubleshooting tool keeps detecting the same problems:

- Service registration is missing or corrupt

- Potential Windows Update Database error detected

- Windows Update components must be rapaired

It is applying fixes (claiming success), but to no avail since the same errors re-appear next time. 

If I remember correctly, the USB 3.0 socket (which is no longer supported by DELL) is main reason why the Dell Alienware Aurora-R3 isn't Win10 compliant. I will try to (physically) disconnect it from the motherboard and see what happens.

However, please advise how to stop or pause the 1709 update to keep forcing itself on us, so we at least don't have to wait for it to fail repeatedly and run the risk that it will compromise our data in the process.

Best regards,

//JJK

Hi,

I found a solution by frustration and would first of all like to express how upset I am with these kind of stealthy, intrusive and non-deferrable updates. Please tell the developers of MS Windows to stop designing them like the infamous 1709.

I followed the instructions above to Defer upgrades, but the 1709 continued to download at every login. I then tried to re-schedule the upgrade to a maximum extent, which I believe was 4 days (thinking that I needed to repeat that on Sunday, and so on).

However, after returning from dinner with the aim to continue to work, the intrusive and stealthy1709 had started the update completely on its own, without my consent and against my clearly expressed will.

Needless to say I was quite p*ssed, since I knew that I would minimally loose half an hour of time to work. That was probably the reason why I was very quick to do the forced shutdown, immediately as the Alienware logo appeared (in doing so I was actually hoping to expedite the roll-back so I could continue to work).

However, the 1709 continued, and that didn't make me any happier, so I was equally trigger happy to do the next forced shut down.

But when 1709 still continued, I was surprised and couldn't help to become a bit hopeful, so I was also really fast on the last forced shutdown.....and then it worked.

I have disabled the driver for the USB 3.0 and the Windows Notifications reported that the Alienware service was stopped after the upgrade. So now I will re-start and hope for the best.

Best regards,

//JJK 

Yep, it works but the Alienware Alien FX and the Thermal Controller doesn't seem to work after the 1709 upgrade.

Edit: I suspect that the iffy 1709 upgrade on the Alienware @home somehow messed up my Surface Pro @work, most likely since they were logged in using the same MS Account.

All Favorites in MS Edge were gone this morning and I had to import them from an old MS Explorer, however, unfortunately with additional loss of data.

Thanks a lot MS Windows.

//JJK