Windows Update Issues

retiretomaui

I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up... The latest Windoze Update malicious software removal tool updates might cause some instability. After installing them last night, my rig wouldn't work, constantly locking and freezing, external drives not being recognized, and tons of program icons being ghosted out including Daz, Carrara, Wordperfect, etc. Windoze wouldn't recognize those programs as installed. After spending over an hour working and speaking with MS remote support, the PC is finally running again but I'm having to download and reinstall everything. Worst of all, the old external drive that I kept most of my DAZ content on is unrecognizable to Windows (fortunately, I have a backup). MS support had to go back and manually uninstall all of the most recent updates and do a few cleanup activities and now things are stable and running, but be beware... While the latest updates may be necessary to protect you from ransomware and such, they may cause some system instability. 

 

The irony is defeaning: download updates to protect your system, but then the updates crash your system!!! Having said that, the MS remote support tech was outstanding and seemed to know just what to do, so props to him. They seemed aware that this was an issue so I doubt I was the first. It looked like prior updates were interfering with the newer ones, if that makes any sense, since that's primarily what he uninstalled. They may have pushed these critical updates out the door without doing enough error checking. So, to the folks who designed these updates without without doing proper QA work on them first (wags his finger at them)...

 

Bob

 

nonesuch00

It didn't crash my machine or corrupt any of the installations or filesystems. If you are in the 'Windows Insiders' beta program though you should expect problems occasionally.