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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: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Tuesday August 11 2015, @08:29AM
I had a funny "compatibility" issue with an old notebook I just bought. In Windows (no idea which, I wouldn't know one from any other) I could do only panel (lo-res), only hdmi (a few different resolutions, including quite hi-res), or cloned displays (pinned to the panel's resolution). One slightly botched linux install later (I had intended to leave the Windows as dual bootable, /just in case/, but failed), using xrandr I can have the panel and the hdmi simultaniously and independently running together - and the hdmi has about 20 different resolutions available to it. And this is on a laptop which allegedly has notoriously very poor graphics support under linux (a GMA Intel chip with an IMG graphics processor on it. I bought it because it was cheap, and I was a bit "tired"). So "very poor" is apparently almost better than what MS Windows provides. I say almost, as the hardware scaling of video overlays doesn't (yet) work (because IMG are incompetent tossers, and I knew this is a demonstrable fact already because I've been one of their clients), which means that I need to set the HDMI screen to the closest resolution, and let the telly do the hardware scaling (which it does perfectly well).
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