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I guess Microsoft is just incapable of getting this update thing right.
The KB4532693 update totally trashed ALL of the user profiles on one of my virtual machines - it wouldn't even boot to safe mode and just wasn't fixable despite working on it off and on for the last two days. I restored it from a relatively recent backup, got called away unexpectedly for a half hour, and it freakin proceeded to download and trash it again exactly the same way. After a 2nd restore, I've delayed the update for now (and then disconnected the machine temporarily from the Internet until MS manages to get its house in order yet again).
Windows 10 KB4524244 Update Causes Freezes, Installation Issues.
Windows 10 KB4532693 Update Bug Hides User Data, Loads Wrong Profile.
You know, I get the need for forced updates. Lord knows that I've spent enough time in the past fixing machines for unconcerned blithering idiots to know that the biggest part of the herd just won't take time away from splattering their lives over social media to bother to update them otherwise.
However, sometimes it just wears on me that we here (the people that actually know what we are doing, at least most of the time) are forced to suffer in order to save the herd from themselves.
Rant off now.
The KB4532693 update totally trashed ALL of the user profiles on one of my virtual machines - it wouldn't even boot to safe mode and just wasn't fixable despite working on it off and on for the last two days. I restored it from a relatively recent backup, got called away unexpectedly for a half hour, and it freakin proceeded to download and trash it again exactly the same way. After a 2nd restore, I've delayed the update for now (and then disconnected the machine temporarily from the Internet until MS manages to get its house in order yet again).
Windows 10 KB4524244 Update Causes Freezes, Installation Issues.
Windows 10 KB4532693 Update Bug Hides User Data, Loads Wrong Profile.
You know, I get the need for forced updates. Lord knows that I've spent enough time in the past fixing machines for unconcerned blithering idiots to know that the biggest part of the herd just won't take time away from splattering their lives over social media to bother to update them otherwise.
However, sometimes it just wears on me that we here (the people that actually know what we are doing, at least most of the time) are forced to suffer in order to save the herd from themselves.
Rant off now.
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