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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/
Submitted from IRC.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Hyper on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:25AM
So, you plan to always run Windows 10 in a VM?
Good choice. Not an option for everyone though...
This type of update crash loop is not new.
Microsoft still releaze toxic updates. One last year was quite bad, and that was for windows server. It prevented core ms system components like .NET from being installed.
OK, yes, there is a funny side to that: Microsoft Helps World By Preventing Install Of Microsoft Software!
Back on your desktop; just how many times will it take for MS to brick your machine or just ruin your config before you defenistrate Windows 10?
(Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:53AM
Yep. Yes, you are right that it's not an option for everybody, but with a modern computer it's mostly gamers and people who have need of the full capacity of their computer that can't. I wound u
My cheapo desktop from last summer has 8 cores and 8 gigs of RAM which is more than enough to run all my versions of Windows at the same time if I like. 2 copies of XP, 1 copy of Vista, 1 copy of 7 and 1 copy of 10, although I expect that the copy of 7 won't activate anymore after I took the upgrade.
I could probably get it to activate under Xen, but I'm not sure what the update policy is going to be on that, seeing as it's the life of the machine and basically any change I've made to my current VM has rendered it unable to activate.