{"id":383,"date":"2017-08-07T19:44:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/?p=383"},"modified":"2017-08-07T20:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:21:40","slug":"windows-10-upgrade-to-windows-10-1703-aka-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/2017\/08\/07\/windows-10-upgrade-to-windows-10-1703-aka-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 &#8211; &#8220;Upgrade&#8221; to Windows 10 1703 aka &#8220;Creators&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Windows has been bugging me to perform the &#8220;Feature Update&#8221; to version 1703, aka the &#8220;Creators Edition&#8221;, for the past week or two.<\/p>\n<h2>TL;DR:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Login Loop&#8221; &#8211; reboot in safe mode<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Black Desktop&#8221; &#8211; Uninstall (or disable) any dodgy third-party services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I finally caved in, cleared 10GB of space on my 128GB SSD, and kicked off the update.<\/p>\n<p>It all seemed to go well and eventually I was presented with a short privacy configuration screen (turned it all off) and tried to log in. And tried to log in. And tried to log in.<\/p>\n<p>So I got hit by the infamous &#8220;Login Loop&#8221;. After a brief bit of research, apparently the way to fix it is to reboot into &#8220;Safe Mode&#8221; and try to log in again. This allows some pending updates to complete, after which a normal reboot should be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Except I got a yawning empty black screen with a cursor. A short bit of Ctrl-Alt-Del and opening up the &#8220;Task Manager&#8221; and I could at least get some apps open and the system configuration. Scanning down the list of services, I found the &#8220;unsigned themes&#8221; service (which, admittedly, is a bit of a hack, albeit an essential one if you find your eyes bleed with the default black-on-white Explorer windows.. it is part of &#8220;UxStyle&#8221;). Turning this off and rebooting again and all (?) is good in the MS-world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please, Microsoft, allow us to theme our desktops!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun and games &#8220;upgrading&#8221; to Windows 10 v1703 aka &#8220;Creators&#8221;.<br \/>\nFixing the infamous &#8220;Login Loop&#8221; and &#8220;black desktop&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,29,31],"tags":[13,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micha.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}