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posted by martyb on Thursday February 13 2020, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the At-least-this-time-it-was-not-actually-deleted dept.

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:

[...] 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.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Thursday February 13 2020, @09:56PM (21 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Thursday February 13 2020, @09:56PM (#957868)

    So, how are those rapid, mandatory, updates working out for you kids?

    • (Score: 1) by bobmorning on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:04PM (2 children)

      by bobmorning (6045) on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:04PM (#957872)

      This is why Linux Mint is my day to day home environment. Only use Win10 to run Quickbooks for the organization I am a member of. Duel boot and Mint is the default.

    • (Score: 2) by black6host on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:04PM (17 children)

      by black6host (3827) on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:04PM (#957873) Journal

      I paid the Windows 10 Pro tax. Glad I did as I can see what is borked before I decide to install the update. It's a shame one has to pay to avoid "features" these days...

      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:15PM (1 child)

        by sjames (2882) on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:15PM (#957878) Journal

        As I said in another article, always be suspicious when someone suggests you pay them to not do something.

        • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday February 14 2020, @03:20AM

          by captain normal (2205) on Friday February 14 2020, @03:20AM (#958042)

          Yeah...sounds like a protection racket to me. "Nice little computer you got there. Be a shame if anything bad were to happen to it. So if you give us some money every so often, we won't hurt your little computer".

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          When life isn't going right, go left.
      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:56PM

        by Gaaark (41) on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:56PM (#957899) Journal

        Don't pay to avoid "features": just install Linux and get proper updates!

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        --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
      • (Score: 5, Informative) by edIII on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:21PM (13 children)

        by edIII (791) on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:21PM (#957917)

        What's a real shame is that you paid it at all. It only enables their bullshit behavior, which is continually getting worse. The state of things right now versus 10 years ago is farking horrible.

        It may not be easy, but move away completely. The more time you spend in their environment, the harder it will be to get away in the future.

        I've had a journey with Linux and BSD, and I won't say it's super easy and painless, but it's better than paying that damn tax to people who will only fuck you in the future.

        My sympathies to whatever situation you have that requires you to have Microsoft.

        --
        Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by black6host on Friday February 14 2020, @12:21AM (11 children)

          by black6host (3827) on Friday February 14 2020, @12:21AM (#957933) Journal

          Hey! I'm free to spend my money and support whomever I'd like! From someone to preach to me that it's a "real shame" that I paid for Windows Pro just makes me feel like someone is telling me what to do, what is right and what is wrong. I moved away from that stuff when I left my parent's home oh so many years ago.

          You vote with your dollar, I'll vote with mine. Thank you very much! : )

          Oh, and I've spent my time with Linux. Long before many turned it into commercial endeavors. I've nothing against it at all. It just doesn't fit my use case at this time.

          • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 14 2020, @02:04AM

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 14 2020, @02:04AM (#958004) Journal

            From someone to preach to me that it's a "real shame" that I paid for Windows Pro just makes me feel like someone is telling me what to do, what is right and what is wrong.

            Fair enough. I feel much the same every time some butt wipe arrogantly tells me that I need to stop smoking.

            On the other hand, those who follow the herd are also being told what to do. Untold millions of Windows users have no clue about anything. They just do what the herd tells them to do.

          • (Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Friday February 14 2020, @02:44AM (8 children)

            by edIII (791) on Friday February 14 2020, @02:44AM (#958025)

            Fair enough, I guess.

            You're right. A woman has every right to stay with the man that beats her. Every right to still love and support him, and speak about the nice parts of his character.

            At the same time, everyone else on the outside of that relationship is quite reasonable calling the whole situation a true shame, the man a loathsome piece of shit, and the woman a poor pitiable thing that can't get beyond it. We have quizzical looks on our faces as well, because we see that nice shiner he gave you last night.

            He ain't no good for you girlfriend, and you deserve better. Just sayin'

            --
            Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
            • (Score: 2) by black6host on Friday February 14 2020, @02:55AM (7 children)

              by black6host (3827) on Friday February 14 2020, @02:55AM (#958031) Journal

              Are you seriously comparing my choice of Windows over Linux with domestic violence?

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @03:16AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @03:16AM (#958040)

                Are you seriously comparing my choice of Windows over Linux with domestic violence?

                The comparison is hyperbolic, certainly, but it is not inapt.

              • (Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Friday February 14 2020, @03:56AM (1 child)

                by edIII (791) on Friday February 14 2020, @03:56AM (#958057)

                I was channeling a sassy black woman, so I wouldn't exactly say seriously. That said however, I stand by the analogy.

                For what it's worth, I used Windows my whole life till their telemetry bullshit in Windows 7. I disabled it at first, used pirate versions that had already been cleared by many others to get rid of the forced bullshit, did whatever I had to do to remove that behavior and regain control. The response was nuclear with forced updates and a corporation controlling what services were active on my computer, after the point of sale. That was the last and final straw.

                I will not have telemetry in my systems, and I take quite a few measures to prevent it. One being, not using Microsoft anymore because it's a continual battle to not be spied on. All of their services are moving towards cloud-based solutions, and that Cortana-Spy-Bot bullshit is everywhere. Microsoft wants to be Google.

                Yes, their behavior is quite abusive and shows a complete disregard for our privacy and digital autonomy, while trying to extend their control and exploitation of us. Sounds a lot like abusive relationships that include domestic violence as a component to me.

                As the other person said, I was hyperbolic, but not off the mark.

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                Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
                • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @06:23AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @06:23AM (#958094)

                  newer than LGA775 or the X58 LGA1366?

                  An AMD system newer than AM3+?

                  An AMD or Nvidia GPU newer than RX580 or GM1xx?

                  USB3?

                  All of these are capable of spying on you or restricting your rightful use of your system to varying degrees.

                  Same with the RPi4 and all the RK3399 based hardware, nevermind the majority of cellphones.

                  If you are really concerned about telemetry and your system spying on you, there is a lot more than merely Windows to excise from your system, although Windows is a good start.

                  Also for you linux users: Make sure dmidecode, Nvidia GUID, and /etc/machine-id are not accessable by Steam, Chrome, or other proprietary applications, because there are all kinds of ways you can be tracked and identified even when you're on a non-Windows platform. The amount of ways we're being spied on today should be both chilling and illegal, and yet somehow they are not.

              • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @01:48PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @01:48PM (#958146)

                Absolutely not. Your choice is being compared with enabling a domestic abuser. The offense might differ in degree, but the experiences of the victims are similar. To be fair, abusers are really, really good - exceptional even - at making their victims feel like they're the ones that did something wrong so your confusion is understandable.

              • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Oakenshield on Friday February 14 2020, @02:42PM (2 children)

                by Oakenshield (4900) on Friday February 14 2020, @02:42PM (#958159)

                Are you seriously comparing my choice of Windows over Linux with domestic violence?

                I had never thought about it that way before, but the analogy is very accurate. Many victims of domestic violence stay because they are financially or emotionally dependent. Most Windows users I talk to who refuse to consider alternatives, including Mac, are dependent financially on some particular piece of software to run their business or are (emotionally) dependent on gaming in the Windows world.

                I spent three days cleaning up a ransomware infection and restoring files this week at a place where I consult. Thank God I had set up ransomware proof backup solution based on Linux. In the end I was able to recover and restore everything and no data was lost. I constantly hear complaints from two Windows 10 victims about how the latest update caused their printer to stop printing in color. The next month, the color tab has mysteriously returned. The following month, no color. Yet they stay because they believe they need some program that they cannot substitute. Despite being abused monthly, they always stay. Inertia...

                If any other business repeatedly damaged a product you bought from them after the sale - month after month - even if unintentionally, would you keep going back and re-buying? If they tore it from your hands, broke it and handed it back saying we'll fix it later; maybe next month, would you be so forgiving as we are of Microsoft?

                • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 14 2020, @06:51PM (1 child)

                  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday February 14 2020, @06:51PM (#958237) Journal

                  ...are dependent financially on some particular piece of software to run their business or are (emotionally) dependent on gaming in the Windows world.

                  So they have system requirements that Linux does not meet?

                  • (Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Friday February 14 2020, @07:10PM

                    by Oakenshield (4900) on Friday February 14 2020, @07:10PM (#958241)

                    Possibly. Sometimes they just do not want to learn something else. i.e. As I said, inertia. Just like an abused mate that doesn't want to find someone else. "He may hit me, but he takes care of me."

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @07:49PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @07:49PM (#958268)

            yes, you're free to do what you want, like a whore is. you fund the enemy of free humanity b/c you're too stupid and whorish to do what's right. your use case breeds STDs, you nasty skank.

        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by shortscreen on Friday February 14 2020, @12:02PM

          by shortscreen (2252) on Friday February 14 2020, @12:02PM (#958140) Journal

          The user/victim of Windows 10 (it should be called Windows SAD, for spyware, adware, DRM) is not the main enabler. Windows was made worse and worse over time and users were made to accept it by the tactics of planned (and enforced) obsolesence, perpetual beta test, and reinventing the wheel that are PERVASIVE throughout the entire industry.

          The people that should be ashamed of Win10: 1) Every developer that limits their application to Win10, especially providers of applications that are expected to be used for real work (wtf? on Win10?), and especially the ones that deliberately break their stuff that used to run on older Windows by adding version checks or flipping a compiler flag. 2) Every hardware vendor that limits their drivers to Win10. 3) Investors and governments that are making MS too big to fail

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by coolgopher on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:36PM (1 child)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:36PM (#957888)

    How the fuck do you even?
    Who accidentally puts in the equivalent of a "mv /home/userfoo /home/userfoo.bak" in an OS patch?!

    Oh wait. I heard "homed" is a thing now. Never mind - the Linux community won't have to feel left out much longer on this topic either...

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @06:16PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @06:16PM (#958224)

      I have no clue and I wish more people would post and respond to these types of posts rather than ranting and whining about things we already know (Stop using SoylentNews as your emotional dumping ground please. Get a real friend for that).

      My only guess is when testing patches, the developers generate a new profile and apply the patch under that user so if something goes wrong then it doesn't screw up their real profile. Somehow some of that testing harness got left in. Instead of picking the test profile, it cloned the only profile reference on the machine, renamed the original profile folder since there's probably a bunch of random changes you'd need to do to truly rename a profile and temporally removing the existing one is easier, applied the cloned profile, installed the patch, deleted the cloned profile, and forgot to restore the original profile.

      But I could be completely wrong. And the fact that you could end up with a .000 or a .bak sounds simply crazy. That means two different systems might be renaming the profile. No one writes backup software which randomly decides to use different file extensions.

      Perhaps Windows realizes the profile has been deleted and attempts to restore it from a restore point or something?

      I really miss the GoBack software. It gave you a log of every file change occurring on your system. That would have been interesting to see in this case.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:56PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2020, @10:56PM (#957900)

    1- Delete all registry keys. All of them
    2- Install your DBAN CD
    3- Remove old hard drive
    4- Pour gasoline or gunpowder on old hard drive
    5- Light with match
    6- Have a cold beer or 12 and decide which Linux variant you want
    7- Live happily ever after

    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:24PM

      by edIII (791) on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:24PM (#957918)

      This is just begging to be put into an infographic on a t-shirt....

      --
      Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 14 2020, @02:06AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 14 2020, @02:06AM (#958007) Journal

      gasoline or gunpowder

      Light with match

      *cough*

      You may not be doing it quite right.

      /me pulls up a chair, opens a cold one, and watches from fifty feet away.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:11PM (2 children)

    by jmichaelhudsondotnet (8122) on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:11PM (#957908) Journal

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:20PM (#957915)

      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

      by sjames (2882) on Friday February 14 2020, @12:52AM (#957957) Journal

      "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.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:59PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 13 2020, @11:59PM (#957923)

    And people would still use windoze.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @12:57AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @12:57AM (#957958)

      If the user consented to using that interface, I don't think its "rape", technically.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @01:04AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @01:04AM (#957961)

        people never read the terms of interface rape

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 14 2020, @02:00AM

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 14 2020, @02:00AM (#958001) Journal

          But, it's just rape with a micro soft dick. Nobody really minds, much.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @02:24AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @02:24AM (#958017)

      Sounds like a future South Park episode.
      Kartman... "Mommmmm, the computer isn't working"
      Kartmans mom... "You have to insert the Windows probe at least 16 inches deep"

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @06:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @06:26AM (#958095)

        It was an Alien Anal probe you could use as radar or a weapon if I remember correctly.

        Yes South Park is starting to become like the 'Simpsons did it!' episode they parodied it with.

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