After a windows update at the start of july my sons laptop will freeze during the startup screen. ?

From my years of computer experience I have learned one thing: Windows Update is there for you... TO RUIN YOUR DAY. I don't remember it helping me in any way. Today it had made me angry for the last time.

I was doing an online job application, one of the kind that saves itself periodically, and I felt that I have the upset stomach all the sudden. I had to make it to the bathroom in a flash. My body did not leave me a chance to do anything about the job application, but to just leave it be. Neither did I have a chance to discover that the evil in the form of the Windows Update was working behind the scenes to make my day even less pleasant...

When I was back, my computer had restarted BY ITSELF. It acted like it was infected with a virus, but it was not. It was that damn Windows Update, which had to restart my computer without my permission or acknowledgement. My job application did not have a chance to save itself. I had to start it from the very beginning.

It was time for me to say goodbye to the Windows Update. I can't uninstall it from my system and that's a shame. I disabled it for good and I disabled that Action Center popup notification about the Windows Update not being active.

Just because of those useless updates I already had to reinstall the whole OS one time and one time was enough, believe me.

The Windows Update is worse than a virus. It is not being detected by antivirus software; yet, it has the behavior of a virus: it automatically installs the crap you don't need, it makes your computer slow and/or freezing, it causes some software you use regularly to stop working... Last, but not least, it will force your computer to restart all the sudden and lose any unsaved work of yours. The only thing it does not do, it does not go "BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!" on you. I'm surprised I never saw a popup message like that.

If you decide to deactivate the Windows Update, don't be afraid of doing it. You'll save yourself from many headaches. May they never occur.

A bad update ,use system restore ,go to the restore point when the update was installed this will rollback his laptop before the update was installed , go to the windows update site and run it manually,check the do not show this update again and contact microsoft about it

It means that your computer is not very active