Where do I start?? I seem to be “coming in late to a long Physics lecture”. Sorry if this has been asked a zillion times. I’m an experienced user but a reluctant new victim of Windows 10 (dragged kicking and screaming out of Win7).
I want to update and patch safely and sensibly. I’m familiar with Microsoft’s cavalier, confusing and frustrating “support” epidemic. You will admit that it’s a hostile firehose, threatening to shut you down if you don’t accept all their (broken) updates NOW.
I have searched through a bunch of well-written articles here and it’s still not clear where I start digging. Some terms aren’t familiar to me. For now, I think (I hope) that I have shut off automatic updates for awhile. But I can’t wait too long. And I actually do have another life.
I should make backups (the OS itself too, not just my files) before heavy updating. Do I make full ISO images or is just a reboot USB drive or CD-ROM sufficient??
I’m not a total newbie. A LONG time ago, I was a pretty good Windows C++ programmer (and I’m very tempted to return). And WAY before that, I go back to Z80 and 8086 Assembly coding (“down to the METAL”) plus the usual HTML, gBasic, etc. etc. Hey, that was when you could actually feel and control the hardware!!
Thanks in advance.