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Microsoft Update has borked my comptuer (again)
Published on September 28, 2024 By BigDogBigFeet In Personal Computing

So, on Friday morning 09/27/2024 everything was fine.  Then about 10:00am Windows 11 updated and all hell happened.  What it is doing is blocking things from running at all.  Most programs will not load or run at all.

I get one session of Edge once I close it nothing will run again not Edge, Explorer, or Start Panel will display. I have to do a hard reboot with the power button to get one session of Edge again.  F. U. Microsoft.

How they did this is in settings they changed my preferences to allow them to install preview builds, I am certain I had that shutoff.  Who the hell wants their bug-ridden builds, not me.  I shut it off again.

I then tried PC retore with that feature shut-off and it ran and re-installed the latest preview build.  Fail.

I then looked on-line, and MS-Net has article stating KB5043145 has flaws and users reporting issues.  Said DISM/online/Remove-Package KB 5043145 would work to remove it.  It didn't again Fail.

I tried going to genuine MC Chat for support at Microsoft.com.  After waiting for 19 people with You're next in line prompt for 20 minutes no one ever responded.  Fail.

Microsoft is failing its customers.  Who the hell would want to buy anything from them with this lack support? 


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on Oct 01, 2024

BigDogBigFeet

Would making and keeping current restore points help with this?

Not really because they're stored on the internal disk/s. A restore point is good, but subject to software/hardware problems affecting your OS, etc.

Pelaird and I both store current disk images (clones) on external disks.

Amazon is having a Prime sale on 10.8 and 10.9. You may be able to snag a deal on a fast SSD to use as an external drive.  

on Oct 01, 2024

Actually, I have disk image backups on an external drive that I add to once a week, but I also keep an SSD with a working OS, my files, and my apps on it. If I run into a catastrophic failure, all I have to do is remove the faulty drive and replace it with this drive. This has saved me from heartache many times.

on Oct 01, 2024

pelaird

Actually, I have disk image backups on an external drive that I add to once a week, but I also keep an SSD with a working OS, my files, and my apps on it. If I run into a catastrophic failure, all I have to do is remove the faulty drive and replace it with this drive. This has saved me from heartache many times.

Smart arrangement . Jafo has 24⁰ backups running and double downs with backups in a safe as well. I use Acronis with a 2TB Samsung SSD for my W11 and the same for my W10 laptop.

on Oct 01, 2024

Redundancy backups...aka backups of backups.  The prime issue is your OS drive as that's the 'system' whose integrity needs to be 'kept'.  That can be an incremental image [Acronis] done every night with a full backup every week and all saved to a separate internal drive [obviously] and once a week or so the image is copied to an external drive.

You keep an eye on both locations and delete older ones manually.

Next trick is to do software database backups as well.... eg Graphics folders ...Documents.... Emails...etc  You do them via Syncback every 24 hours... and they're differential backups adding/replacing what's new/changed.

Syncback can also be set to do redundancy backups of its backups as well... so eg in my case at any one time I'll have 3 PSDs of Outlook available, not counting what's also in the Image files...

on Oct 01, 2024


Next trick is to do software database backups as well

Puzzled. Acronis isn't enough for both system and data backup?

on Oct 01, 2024

DrJBHL

Puzzled. Acronis isn't enough for both system and data backup?

It is, but if you do things like in-game graphics for something like FSX you can have a massive database that's not necessarily on your OS drive...and sometimes disc images are a little too sledgehammer to crack a nut big.

I keep 'trimming' my FSX by archiving [removing] planes I'm not currently using...but even with that my FSX is on a separate partition of my M.2 drive ...and is 218gig with over 286000 files ...

on Oct 02, 2024


a little too sledgehammer to crack a nut big.

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on Oct 02, 2024

DrJBHL

Pelaird and I both store current dick images (clones) on external disks.

Doc!!! There is no reason that we need to know where you keep "those" images!!!  

on Oct 02, 2024



Quoting DrJBHL,

Pelaird and I both store current dick images (clones) on external disks.



Doc!!! There is no reason that we need to know where you keep "those" images!!!  

       

on Oct 02, 2024



Quoting DrJBHL,

Pelaird and I both store current dick images (clones) on external disks.



Doc!!! There is no reason that we need to know where you keep "those" images!!!  

LMAO!

That would be "disk", Phoon...as in, "Don't be a disk." 

Thanks for spotting that...err...thanks for bringing that to my attention, old friend.        

Free advice: Never trust a spellchecker. <insert double facepalm here>.

 

 

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