My latest hate for Windows 10 is after the most recent update I'm having trouble installing applications. It's Windows Defender I am sure.
Notably I found LTspice XVII taking forever to start, so I uninstalled it and then found it impossible to re-install. I went through the registry deleting all LTspice keys, and did the regsvr32 /u on it's DLL's. I cleared the .ini file it places in /user/AppData/...
I changed the install drive to C:\ etc. I installed it as Administrator. I launched it as Administrator, nothing would work.
I then switched off all Windows 10 virus bollocks and re-installed it. Finally it runs!!! But it still takes over 1.5 minutes to start, and I have used Sysinternals Procmon.exe to see what's going on - literally nothing. It just sits there no disk, net, CPU, anything activity for up to 2 minutes before it actually starts.
Ok. more recently I decide to install Fusion 360 to see what it's all about.
Signed up, application downloads and installs but as soon as it gets to 99% it bombs out with an error. There is nothing about this error (-2147024894, 'The system cannot find the file specified.', (None, None, None, 0, None)) online. I re-install again as Administrator, same again. I try all kinds and send a log to Autodesk. I then go and try my Windows Defender settings, disable "Controlled folder access" and it only fucking installs just fine!
Fusion now works. LTspice works but I have to wait 2 minutes for it to start, and it also takes 2 minutes to unload after I close it. All this bollocks since mandatory Windows 10 updates.