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Thanks John.
I look after the four computers and one shared printer at the Citizens Advice Bureau where I volunteer. We recently got four new HP ProDesk systems with Windows 10, and a discounted Office 2016 volume license. They'd been working fine for about two weeks when one went into a non recoverable startup loop with a error message that resolved to Windows Update.
So I fixed that, and was told another had done the same thing. While I was there fixing the second system, a third failed with the same thing! I have them all with a recover image in case they fail again, but I still don't know why they are failing, so all I have done so far is pause Windows updates for the MAX (sorry Dave 
) allowed 35 days. I look forward to reading the PC World article to see if it helps.
Trevor.Dennis wrote
all I have done so far is pause Windows updates for the MAX (sorry Dave ) allowed 35 days.
Trevor, following your advice, I also tried to pause Windows updates this morning for the MAX allowed of 35 days, and while I was looking for pause, which I never found, Windows updated itself to 1808.
Oh, and I am also sorry, Dave.
Jane I am only pausing updates on the CAB computers until I can work out what is going wrong with them. The four Windows systems at home are all still on auto update. Your Advanced options are different to mine.
The two desktop systems at home are still on Windows 10 1803, and I am now inclined to keep them that way. I have a Shadow Protect license for my main desktop, but I haven't got round to creating boot drive image, and it would be a royal PITA to have it do the same thing as the CAB computers. I strongly suspect that the CAB computer problem is to do with them being HP Prodesk. They came with Windows 7 and a bunch of DVDs including Windows 10, but I had to change the BIOS in order to install Windows 10. I can't put my hands on the paperwork for that right now, and I don't remember off the top of my head what I had to change in the BIOS, but I do know I didn't change it back, and it might be that it would best if had been changed back. It's a ten minute job to fix the CAB systems if they break again, now I have an OS image to reset to, but I still have to reinstall Office. I did worry about Office running out of Activations, but it obviously recognised the hardware, and didn't even ask for a serial number. Now wouldn't it be nice if the pre-CC Photoshop versions had done that. All moot now.. Blimey, I just wrote off those thousands (millions?) of people who still use earlier versions.
Taking John's thread off topic, I wonder how many unused earlier version licenses we have between us? I've just looked, and I have three versions of Photoshop, two Premiere Pro, and an InDesign all registered and currently unused. At the time, I bet we all thought we were using amazing software... The best in the world. It seems a shame that that software now goes unused. Old versions of Premiere Pro would have limited use because of their outdated CODECs, and some of my earlier Adobe software is 32 bit, but it did the job for us back in the day. [1]
[1] I just reminded myself with the 'back in the day' comment, which is something Jack Reacher would say. Two days, as I type this, till the next Reacher book 'Past Tense' is released. 
There are an awful lot of reviews for this book considering has not been released yet.
Obviously, you missed the issue by that time.
I should have given a link to the most interesting discussion in the feedback forum.
Photoshop CC 2018: An integer between 96 and 8 is required. Closest value inserted. "Could not compl... Just have a look at the post by Hanna Nicollet (who disclosed the workaround) where she states:
"I'm glad the fix helped. Michel is right that I don't have time to help everyone personally -- a video with the workaround for this issue had 54,000 views as of yesterday. Needless to say I wouldn't have been able to help over 50,000 people personally."
For the record, while the bug was corrected rapidly in Photoshop, it was only solved in last september in Elements. And you know what? by editing the registry when installing the last (paying) version, PSE 2019. Which leaves the users of the three older versions with the registry edit as the only working solution.
The general issue for OS providers is how keep running with old features while introducing new ones. Contrary to what you seem to think, I totally agree with your opinion:
"This is a sidetrack. This isn't what it's about. I never said Windows has always been completely bug-free, of course it hasn't. What I said was that compared to other software companies, Windows has a very good record. It doesn't look to me like Apple is doing any better."
In the fifty or so posts I had to write to angry users in the Elements forum, I made it clear that I understand the need for Microcoft to move ahead. My critique was about the impossibility to roll back to the previous Win 10 build. And for Apple, just have a look at the Elements user to user forum or the feedback forum about the introduction of Mojave...
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