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Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

This update is now available but I have not updated yet.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...date-kb4532693

There are some reports of issues with it so I'll wait a few days.
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Thanks Omah.
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Re: Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

I continually get a windows update message and I select tonight and then shutdown and update. I leave the laptop switched on. Sure enough a couple of days later I get the same message. The laptop is about 6 years old and I upgraded to windows 10 when it became available.
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Re: Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

Originally Posted by Omah ->
This update is now available but I have not updated yet.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...date-kb4532693

There are some reports of issues with it so I'll wait a few days.
Reading the link, it's interesting to see that they are installing these in "Dormant State" which, presumably means that they can switch on a few, at first, and see if there are issues, and then switch on more and more if all seems to be going well. Maybe they'll also grade people by occupation and skill levels.

Not a bad plan. I guess that the insider members, like me, will get to go first.

Anyway, mine is updated and I'm watching to see what the switch on looks like.
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Re: Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

Originally Posted by Omah ->
This update is now available but I have not updated yet.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...date-kb4532693

There are some reports of issues with it so I'll wait a few days.
What a co-incidence! I am not waiting.




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Re: Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

Patch Tuesday Windows 10 update KB4532693 is borking user profiles

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/401...ate-windows-10

One of Microsoft's latest Windows 10 Patch Tuesday updates is causing incorrect user profiles to be loaded on start-up and resetting users' desktops and Start menus.

The offending update, KB4532693, is supposed to address problems installing updates, and to improve the security of Microsoft Edge, Office and various hardware devices.

However, in the latest round of ‘Microsoft Update roulette', a large number users have warned that user profiles fail to load, providing them with a temporary profile instead, and therefore resetting Start menus and barring users from accessing their documents.

One user posting to Microsoft Answers, asked: "When I closed down my PC last night it started doing updates and was taking a long time so I left it and went to bed.

"This morning I logged on - no problems, but I then realised (I can't remember how) that my files had all moved to another folder in the c drive, ending in .000.

"After doing some searching for advise online, I restarted the PC several times but it hasn't changed. I have even closed it down completely to see if this made a difference - it didn't. I am now worried that I will close down again and from what I have read this may be a temporary file."

They weren't the only distressed Windows user to post an SOS about the problem.

The response indicated that it is a widespread problem. "This is happening much too often at the moment… Do not copy your files into the Temporary profile you are currently in. When the situation is corrected, your files will be deleted with the Temporary profile and will not be recoverable."

The moderator suggested that users should navigate to C:\Users to check whether data related to the original profile can be found. If so, users should create a new user profile with administrative privileges and copy all the data over from the old profile into the new profile.

Another proposed solution is to uninstall the update and restart the PC.
I'd uninstall the update .....
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Re: Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

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Patch Tuesday Windows 10 update KB4532693 is borking user profiles

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/401...ate-windows-10

I'd uninstall the update .....
This is exactly the sort of thing which encourages me to avoid Windows Updates.

What right does Microsoft have to try to force us to accept updates which can cause such problems when none exist beforehand?
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13-02-2020, 05:38 PM
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Re: Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

There's no getting away with it if believing updates are generally for the best. It looks like other platforms have the right to bork the system with them too...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/12/...e-avoid-update

https://appletoolbox.com/macbook-wil...ra-update-fix/

https://www.fosslinux.com/8782/fix-b...n-packages.htm

https://journalxtra.com/linux/deskto...-boot-failure/

We're all free to do what can be done to block (or not accept) updates if that's thought best though.

I think the trouble is that the workings that go on behind what we see on computer screens is so complicated that unforeseen stuff can go wrong under the bonnet.

I know it's a bit naughty and not something everyone should or would do but I've always run Windows as an Administrator, no limited user profiles. That might be why I haven't noticed anything wrong with the latest updates.
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Re: Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

Originally Posted by mart ->
I know it's a bit naughty and not something everyone should or would do but I've always run Windows as an Administrator, no limited user profiles. That might be why I haven't noticed anything wrong with the latest updates.
I run Windows 10 with an Administrator account, too, but I've still enountered the occasional update issue .....
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13-02-2020, 05:59 PM
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Re: Windows 10 - February 11, 2020 - KB4532693

Originally Posted by Omah ->
I run Windows 10 with an Administrator account, too, but I've still enountered the occasional update issue .....
I can't remember the last glitch I had due to a Windows update but I'm sure I must have had one or two. The last memorable one was in W/10's early days when there was no good driver for my Nvidia graphics card.

My memory isn't what it was though.
 
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