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Microsoft's first cumulative update for Windows 10 - KB3081424 - is causing havoc for some users. How do I know this? Because I spent a good part of my Sunday morning dealing with it, that's how.
The problem, in a nutshell, is that the update puts affected systems into an endless crash loop. The update tries to install, gets to a certain point, fails, and then displays the unhelpful "We couldn't complete the updates, undoing the changes."
If it stopped there things wouldn't be too bad, but because Microsoft now forces updates onto Windows 10 users, the OS kept trying - and failing - to install the update, which in turn placed the system into a periodic crash/reboot loop that put quite a dent in my productivity.
To make matters worse, the tool that Microsoft released to hide or block toxic Windows 10 updates (as reported by my ZDNet colleague Ed Bott) didn't allow me to prevent this update from attempting to install. So I was forced to either abandon the machine until a fix was made available or try to fix it myself.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-cumulative-update-causes-reboot-loop-havoc-for-some-users/
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(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:08AM
The only thing I notice now is while the computer is sleeping (keyboard closed), it is warmer. Which means its doing something that it didn't use to do while sleeping.
Check your settings on how updates are delivered. Apparently by default it uses your bandwidth (and by extension I assume your processor) to get updates from and send updates to other PC's on your network and other PC's on the internet. Aside from whatever it is sending to Microsoft...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:28AM
That was the first thing I killed off.
Netstat shows no such connections.
Checking on my firewall, I see no unexplained connections.
Still, its not sleeping as deeply as it used to. So it must be doing something.
I'm going to leave it sleeping on battery to see if it behaves differently.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @03:48AM
The killer app is watching you :).
It is part of Skynet and it will come online in 2017...