There is a poll attached to this where I am collecting list member data on MS "wait for the update" on startup/shutdown.

The number of required reboots was improved. Now it takes 4!  

I am beginning to think that since I use my main linux box in Win 10 mode only very very rarely that my larger Win 10 updates are "serially" stacking up on me, with each one requiring 2 reboots each and that Win 10 is only able to proceed by loading them one at a time in order.

Linux Mint 18.3 has begun announcing their new features ...... and since they got burned by someone spoofing their download site (which ran on a web site software, not Linux Mint btw) Linux Mint has now been adopted by two major anti-virus firms as their Linux poster child, with their inevitable overkill excesses carefully buffered by Clem and the Linux boys.

Mint is actually doing this because they have an IMAGE problem since they got their server spoofed.   In a sense, it is likely time this sort of stuff got incorporated as Linux is getting more and more popular as MS edges slowly towards a yearly pay me world.   This means the Ukraine hacker boys are hitting on Linux now more and more.

So, if it is needed, security-wise, Linux Mint 18.3 has it -- in spades.   Tough to spoof, tough to infect, has built in complete machine backup (old style outside media backup like a USB hard drive that is) AND they have the new open source equivalent of GO BACK.

Yep, "Back in Time" is part of Linux Mint 18.3 by default installation.   Snapshots are taken automatically (you get some granulation control here) and it operates dirt easy.   If something goes awry you can kick it back one notch or two or three or four until whatever happened goes away.

Actually, it is likely still simpler, quicker and easier to just put your distro disc back in and wipe the whole thing, re-install and recover your machine that way.   But some people do have a LOT of time invested in setting up and saving games and with MS games partitioning and shared drives and such like stuff that make trying the "Back in Time" route first a good thing to try out first when trouble comes.

Down in illiteracy land, I've disabled the Windows update system as far as I'm aware. I still get reminders saying updates are available but I ignore them, still on Windows 7.