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Reports are coming in that the Windows 10 KB4532693 cumulative update is loading an incorrect user profile and causing the user's desktop and Start Menu to be reset to default.
On February 11th, Microsoft released the Windows 10 v1909 and v1903 KB4532693 cumulative update as part of their February Patch Tuesday updates.
Since then, reports are starting to come in that after installing the update, some users state that their normal user profile is missing, their desktop files are missing, and everything was reset to default.
Here are links to some of these reports:
- User comment on bleepingcomputer
- Cumulative updates - February 11th 2020
- Every time Windows 10 Updates, it deletes all saved desktop icons, clears my taskbar, deletes all my saved favorites, passwords, and more!
- Desktop problem
[...] The good news is that the update is not wiping your data, but rather renaming the original user profile in the C:\Users folder. If you are affected by this issue, you can look in C:\Users and see if you have a renamed profile ending in .000 or .bak.
Unfortunately, restoring a profile through Registry edits may be a very difficult and risky task for many people.
As some people stated that they could resolve the issue by restarting Windows a few times or uninstalling the KB4532693 update, it is safer to go down this route first if you are affected by this issue.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:11PM (2 children)
This sounds more like a mass gaslighting project to make people doubt their own sanity, not an operating system.
What will they think of next, chairs that bobble around at random to make you misclick?
Will the smart have to hear buzzers ever few seconds? Will the strong have to wear chains?
Oh wait, then that would be at least logical according to some plan, and not just people who are unintelligent enough to be, still, locked into windows in 2020?
Or, they might just be doing this to people who are on somebody's shitlist. Like everyone who votes for bernie using windows 10, jack with their home directory, press button to confirm. You can't know, can you? Are you going to send an inquiry to support@ms to ask for a rundown of who was affected and their affiliations? Heck, who knows where they copied your home folder while they were hiding it from you.
That is where we are, not where we are headed.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:20PM
Clippy is making a comeback in an upcoming update. It will ask you if you're sure you want to left click every time you use a mouse and also ask for your password every time you press a key on your keyboard. After all, security is Microsofts number seventeen priority.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by sjames on Friday February 14 2020, @12:52AM
"We won't tell you which files are executable, but if you click one, it's YOUR fault", OH wait, they already did that one.