Windows 10 installing Fall Creators Update (Samsung NVME SSD)

The Microsoft stock answer is as follows.

Method 1:

You may try these steps to reset the Windows update components manually and check.

1. Press Win+X on the desktop screen of the computer.
2. Select Command Prompt (Admin)

3. On the open Command Prompt window copy and paste the commands :

   net stop wuauserv
   net stop cryptSvc
   net stop bits
   net stop msiserver
   ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
   ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 catroot2.old
   net start wuauserv
   net start cryptSvc
   net start bits
   net start msiserver
   

4. Exit the command prompt and check.

Delete the renamed folders if everything is correct.

You can try the following step if the issue persists.

Method 2:

Check if the region is correct. Follow the steps mentioned.

1. Type "Region" on the Start screen. Click "Settings" and press Enter.
2. On the "Format" tab, select "English (United Kingdom)".
3. Click "Languages Preferences"> "Add a language" and add "your language".
4. Once added, select it and click "Move Up" to make it the first language. Close the Language window.
5. On the "Region" window, click "Additional Settings" and check if the values are same.
6. Click the "Location" tab and change the Home Location to "your country" and then click OK.

New Answer (2020-10-22)

By now, there are dedicated settings allowing you to control this behavior.

Go to Settings > Account > Sign-in options and scroll down to the bottom. There will be two settings:

• "Automatically save my restartable apps when I sign out and restart them after I sign in." (new in Windows 10 2004)
• "Use my sign-in info to automatically finish setting up my device after an update or restart."

I recommend turning both off, despite only the first seemingly dealing with this feature. I still noticed some apps opening after a restart if I did not turn off both options.

The following, old answer workarounds this by using a script to shutdown:

Old Answer

Here's a silly workaround for the similarly silly new feature.

Some background first: Windows seems to shutdown as if %WINDIR%\system32\shutdown.exe was invoked with the /sg /hybrid /t 0 parameters. The magic is in the /sg parameter which tells it to "restart any registered applications" on the next boot. The "old" /s parameter still exists and shutdown can be invoked with it manually.

To quickly call shutdown.exe like that, create a shortcut either in your apps list (%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs for all users, %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs for the current user), or somewhere else and then pin it to start.

The important shortcut properties are the following:

• Name: Shutdown
• Target: %WINDIR%\system32\shutdown.exe /s /hybrid /t 0
• Start in: %WINDIR%\system32

Optional:

• Name: Add a non-breakable space (Alt+Num255) in front of it to appear at the top of the All Apps list. You can try other fancy Unicode characters if you like.
• Run: Minimized to prevent the ugly command prompt from popping up shortly.
• Icon: Change to something nice (there's an XP-style shutdown icon available in the default shell32.dll, or some close / critical icons in imageres.dll).
• Comment: Leave a rant here about the dumb new feature.

It can look like this in the end:

If you want a shortcut doing the same for restarting, the old /r switch can be used which was replaced by the new /g switch.