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This popped up on me right in the middle of changing several devices to a static IP. It was working fine and all of a sudden it stopped working. I went to IE and everything was fine.
Ron

I ran Win7 32 bit in a win10 pro 64 bit hyper-v window for the last 2 years. Works great and you can switch back and forth between the 2 instantly. The only caveat is you must have win10 pro for the base machine. Until a few months ago I also ran the insider version of win10 in a hyper-v window as well.
Ron

Exactly!!! I had the BSODs pretty much gone until yesterday. Since then 4. Guess what happened yesterday. Right now it just decided the internet wasn’t connected so I checked with my other machine and it works but the windows phone and Surface say no. A reboot fixes the phone and the Surface reboot says it’s preparing updates. Hmm those were done and complete yesterday. It was locked up on that screen. Finally I shut it off and restart and it boots like nothing has happened and all is well again. I have only one weak link and that is I’m running the Surface dock and a monitor with an active display port to DVI-D connector. Cable will be here in couple of days to rule that out as a problem.
Ron

I too have been frustrated since the AV update. My email and calendar apps have been working perfectly since the beginning of 10 and since the update they have gone to not working at all to partially working to almost working and then it starts the cycle all over again. I have tried everything I can think of and everything I’ve read on the web and 3 hours with tech support to no avail. They tell me it’s a bad install which I reinstalled and didn’t make a difference. This wouldn’t be so bad as I normally would still have my phone to get the emails and if all else failed the webmail for outlook.live EXCEPT MY WINDOWS PHONE STARTED DOING THE EXACT SAME THING WITH THE EXACT SAME ERROR AT THE SAME TIME AND NOW THE WEB SITE SOMETIMES DOES THE SAME THING. I’ve been using a pc since msdos 1.25 and have used extensively every operating system since then and have never had too many problems and none that weren’t correctable pretty quickly. They have taken me from a pretty loyal supporter to a frustrated user in a little over a month. I was an insider and I didn’t have hardly any problems then. Oh by the way I’m running a Surface Pro4 (a very expensive POS) with nothing on it but Office 2003 and a few games. Everything else I run in a Hy-per V window.
Ron

I ran the insider builds for 2 years also but I ran them in a hyper-v window. They pretty much ran great until about 2 months ago. I couldn’t get the next update installed after 4 tries and as I was very busy at the time so I put it aside for a couple of weeks. Next time I booted it up it locked me out. Didn’t have time to figure out how to get it back as a clean install still wouldn’t let me back in. My digital license shows in my account but it doesn’t seem to work.
Ron

Click on the action center icon (lower right corner of the screen), put mouse over the tablet mode icon and right click. This will bring up the settings item. Click on it and all the settings for tablet mode are there.
Ron

Nathan I had the same problem with my Surface Pro 4 ( sound didn’t work until a reboot). My fix was to turn off fast start. It has worked fine ever since. The difference seems to be 2 or 3 extra seconds so it still boot pretty fast.
Ron

If your account is a registered instead of a local account you should be able to just install and it will activate as your machine is registered in your account. I have reinstalled win 10 on several machines and it activated without any numbers needed but you must have a Microsoft account.
Ron

Right click on the program Icon and then click on the properties item. Then click on the compatibility tab on the top. Then check the box that says run this program as the administrator. Then click the apply button. Then it should run from the icon without doing anything extra. There are lots of programs out there that have to be run this way.
Ron

If you drag the window to the top left or right of the screen you get 1/4 sized windows on the top. If you drag the window to the CENTER left or right you get 1/2 sized windows. Hope this helps.
Ron

Open you browser and go to outlook.com and log in. It will redirected you to live.com I believe. Once logged in there will be a gear in the upper right hand area of the screen. Check your settings and save them and that should take care of the problem.
Ron

A follow up on my previous posts. I had time Saturday to try again the AVU. I used the windows upgrade assistant this time. I also unhooked the surface dock and ran the upgrade and it came out OK. I then connected the dock with nothing hooked to it and waited a minute or so and then one by one hooked things to the docked waiting a minute in between. This all seems to have solved the problem as I have a stable machine now. I did have the sound not working problem. I deleted the sound drivers and restarted and that took care of it.
Thanks,
Ron

RockE,
I haven’t contacted Microsoft on this as I didn’t have the time to mess with it. I’m now waiting for the slow ring update to see if it makes a difference and I’ll tackle it then.
JoeP517,
Normally I would agree with you on the software install as I have seen this before but this machine only has Office on a factory install and a couple of windows store programs.
This is the base Factory install and it’s not running in a hyper-v window. I do run 2 other installs in hyper-v windows (win 7 upgraded to win 10 32 bit and my insider preview machine 32 bit) but I have had no problems with them but I put the win7 upgrade to the slow ring also. The problems showed up when I wasn’t running any hyper-v machines. The update was so problematic I never got to try the hyper-v windows.
No I didn’t remove the dock before the install and that occurred to me also that it might have been the problem.
Yes all firmware and software updates were performed before I installed the AU update.

I have to say this: The Surface Pro with the dock has become my go to computer. It’s doing the job that was previously handled by a much larger desktop. I can use it as a desktop and in a second take it on the road. Version 1511 is stable and problem free so I’ll wait a month or so to get the slow ring update.
Thanks Guys for the Tips,
Ron

I normally would agree with JoeP517 and RetiredGeek but in my case I have a Surface Pro 4 that took the up grade but it was so full of problems that I rolled it back. My Surface doesn’t have anything installed on it that is out of the ordinary but it’s hooked to there Dock which shouldn’t be a problem. Funny thing is I’m an insider and I never had nothing but minor complaints with each update (running in a hyper-v machine on the pro) until last month and it refused to update and it time bombed out before I could get it to install. I don’t understand why they couldn’t get it right on there own hardware.

I installed the update on a Surface Pro 4 and it was riddled with bugs. Sound would sometimes work but mostly no right from boot up. A driver search showed they were up to date. Problems with the taskbar locking up but the desktop area worked and the network icon in the system tray only displayed a wire connection in wired or wifi. Random lockups everywhere and my Hyper-V machines wouldn’t boot at all. I messed with it for a couple of hours and finally rolled back to the previous version. Up till now I haven’t had any major problems with any update.