Rant Windows 10 and Windows Update

[mikeymikec]

I've been dealing with that this week. If you're using a Microsoft app like Word, simply selecting the offending printer will cause an instant BSOD. In other programs, you can select it but once you hit print it BSOD's. KB5000802 & KB5000808 need to be removed as admin, the Windows Update system needs to be snoozed for a week so the updates don't sneak back in (had that happen lol), and the machine has to reboot. It looks like Microsoft is issuing an emergency patch by Monday EOD. I have test machines at all of the sites I service for doing initial update testing for WSUS & have never had to add "test printing for bluescreens" to my checklist before in 15+ years in IT hahahaha!

There was another update which broke USB printing a couple of years ago. I wonder if Microsoft can be persuaded to re-establish its QA department, because it's times like this that I'm glad I've jumped ship.

 

[Kaido]

Yeah NEVER let any version of Windows update drivers.

Unless of course format and reinstall is your idea of a good time!

I'm a big fan of Macrium for this reason. On personal computers, the licensed version of Macrium Reflect does automatic incremental updates that can be used as ghost images to restore the backup to the night before, and you can boot using either a USB stick formatted with the PE environment (basically a slim version of Windows running Macrium to copy the backup imagine to the boot drive) or just format your backup drive as a boot location & switch it in BIOS during boot. For corporate computers, you can take that Macrium PE environment, make it an ISO, set it up on a server for PXE boot, and then restore a nightly incremental for the workstation from a NAS. Bonus, Macrium has a built-in babysitting tool that monitors for Cryptolocker viruses & protects the backups, so even if the PC gets nuked, you can just rewind! Super simple & totally automated after setup (you can have it roll up the incrementals based on your schedule preferences).

 

[MrSquished]

Does this come with the vaccine?

 

[Kaido]

Does this come with the vaccine?

Yup!

 

[Captante]

Does this come with the vaccine?

NO vaccine for this ongoing nightmare I'm afraid.

Win 10 = perpetual beta.

In fact the most recent Win 10 update from last week black-screened my backup PC (ie: guinea pig) and required a restore using Macrium in fact since rolling the update back refused to work.

It's not just MS either ... the latest Nvidia release-drivers caused my main gaming rig to not boot & had to remove in safe-mode. A couple versions and and the monitor would not wake properly. (at least that time it only took an uninstall!)

 

[Torn Mind]

I'm glad I'm still on Windows 8.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm glad I'm on Linux.

Though I do have a win7 machine for gaming, which at some point I'll probably be forced to "upgrade" if a game I want to play won't run on it. For example Unreal Tournament just randomly stopped working for no reason because they updated the Epic Launcher and it won't run anymore. I hate how most games rely on these stupid cloud based launchers now. Just make the games stand alone FFS.