Windows 10 forcing update, anything to be proactive about?

Hello all, I'm running Windows 10 Home Edition, and after reading a number of posts about things going haywire after the Fall Creator's Update, I disabled Window Updates in the Services list. As I was warned, however, Windows is finally forcing an update this coming Tuesday night. I'm currently running Version 1703, Build 15063.909, and I assume I'm going to be updated to the latest version/build. The latest update I've done of Splat is the 2017.08 version. Other than the inevitable AD2 re-authorization, is there anything I should be proactively preparing myself for? I know people's issues have run the gamut from non-existent to completely debilitating, and so I understand it's a tough question to answer. I've heard about audio interface drivers maybe being messed up or switched around, not sure if there's anything else I should be looking at. Thanks in advance for any tips!

Joel

If there is one thing I would suggest and that is to not allow Microsoft to touch hardware drivers in any way.  Do those manually by going to the manufacturer's websites for your various hardware.  I believe that, by far, the majority of issues that occur with Sonar after installing Windows updates is due to Microsoft choosing to install the wrong version drivers.

I am using the latest Sonar Platinum (Oct 2017) with a fully patched Windows 10 Pro 64bit machine and I have not had any issues.

Promidi, you wrote "If there is one thing I would suggest and that is to NOT allow Microsoft to touch hardware drivers in any way." I most certainly would prefer that Microsoft not touch any drivers, but is there anything I can do to prevent them from doing so? Or just hope they don't and, if necessary, go through the process of figuring out what they changed if something's acting screwy?

After every Windows update I check Device Manager to see if Windows has re-enabled things I intentionally disabled, like HD audio and other features that could interfere with my audio settings. With the last couple of major updates Windows has left these things alone, but I still check just in case.

toddbooster
Windows 10 doesn't defragment SSDs, it runs trim. Trim erases deleted blocks to improve write performance and decrease the number of erase/write cycles on the disk. Trim makes SSDs faster and last longer.

So if I choose the optimize tool for an SSD, it doesn't really do the defrag thing?
 
My SSDs have TRIM enabled.  A full backup immediately after the upgrade required a 30G incremental after the optimization ran.  That seems suspicious to me.

I don't know why the backup was so big, but depending on what you have set to backup, a lot of files would have been downloaded and changed during the update.

toddbooster
I don't know why the backup was so big, but depending on what you have set to backup, a lot of files would have been downloaded and changed during the update.

The size was compared to the first post-update backup.  IOW:
 
- Windows updates itself
- Full backup is executed; 66G
- Next night incremental runs; 30G with no installs or updates in between.
 
Note that with my internet connection it would be close to impossible to download 30G in 24hrs.
 
Windows ran defrag on both SSDs.  This happened because auto optimize was re-enabled during the update process.  Even if you take SSD out of the discussion, Windows changed the optimize setting on it's own, so something to watch out for.