<insert list of reasons here, all of them encountered..>
- Error overwriting component X
- Ancient drivers found for: y, z, a (remove prior to attempt)
- etc, etc, etc.

lay it out - don't just keep showing this and encourage repeating the same insanity over and over again.

(10 of 10)

..that when a major process fails like an upgrade, that all the problems encountered by setup along the way couldn't be documented in relatively plain english, or hell, even grouped together for presentation upon said failure:

"Windows could not install the upgrade due to the following:"

(9 of ?)

now obviously i'm stubborn, and will keep hitting against this until i fit that square peg into the round hole, but my point stands in that in an era where everyone is pushing AI, advanced analytics, and forcing upgrades, the process should not be this vague. there's zero reason..

(8 of ?)

it'd also be when i point out that during this latest attempt last night, i also managed to upgrade my MBP to tahoe in about 1/10th of the time it was just taking windows to update/rollback.. "why not just use the mac, rob?" - practical reasons like "i can't get blown up in space in elite"

(7 of ?)

(i should note that at this point of the upgrade, as the parent i would have thrown my hands up in frustration and shifted the conversation with my tech savvy kid over to topics like "why don't you come visit more" & "when are we getting grandkids" & "this is what hurts now")

(6 of ?)

took a day off to get some work done,tracked down some old pen drivers it seemed not to like and now i got a whole bunch of other error text including mention of an ADAM client and some new codes like 0x80070002, 0x80070490 and my new favorite 0x800401F0 (why? why not, it references win7)

(5 of ?)

yeah, well, one of these days all my games will get there - and there's still the rub that I have to support too many things reliant on windows

now we're up to a "Failed to merge telemetry file" 0x80070057 error in the rollback log.. pausing now since i have actual work to do..

(4 of ?)

error 1 was 0xc1900101, which points at memory integrity not being on, and ok, yeah there's some old dead drivers in there preventing it from turning on so i'll clean that up -- from the command line, because there's no mechanism offering to clean unused drivers up that mom could follow

(3 of ?)

let's think about this like i am not in the biz, or worse, trying to guide your elderly parent through this from across the country. yes, i know i should reinstall completely every so often, but i'm also, like most people, lazy when it comes to wanting to reinstall all my apps.

(2 of ?)