One of the great court reporters we work with who is on StenoCat had a HORRIBLE experience setting up in court this week and sent the following alert:
“New Windows update could possibly wreak havoc on your computer settings.
“My computer updated last night, and this morning all my drivers were erased, my Bluetooth was disabled, my software key would not work, and all my COM ports were missing from my Device Manager.
“Also, because that wasn’t enough, my SD card on my writer was “bad” and would not save any new jobs so writing on it and transferring the notes to the computer later was not an option.
“Obviously my writer issue had nothing to do with the Windows update, but it happened all on the same day. Complete system fail.
“While our office staff scrambled to find another reporter to cover my job, I re-loaded my software, my drivers, and somehow managed to get it working in 20 minutes. I had to write without a dictionary so my tran rate was a big fat zero, and my screen was all red.
“I’ve now reconfigured everything and all is well.
“After you install this latest update, set everything up and test it before you go to a job. It was probably just a weird thing on my end, but it was super stressful and I want to save you all from living this nightmare.”
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From my experience, the best way to handle this problem is to turn off Windows updates. This is the process according to my Google search:
1. Click Computer Configuration.
2. Click Policies
3. Click Administrative Templates
4. Click Windows Component
5. Click Windows Update
6. Double click Turn off the upgrade to the latest version of Windows through Windows Update
7. Click Enable.
Microsoft has made it extremely difficult to stop the updates in Windows 10. If you can choose to never install updates or you decide when and if you wish to install an update, that is your best bet, in my opinion.