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I've just been offered yesterday's single update. When I looked at the details there is a list of 'known issues' after installation. Have there been any yet? Is it safe to wait a week or two?
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Yes it's safe to wait a week or two... But if its available why not just apply it?
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I installed it on two pcs and both are working fine...
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....... same here for one laptop (Windows 8.1)
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Yes it's safe to wait a week or two... But if its available why not just apply it? I stopped both my machines at home from updating several years ago. They both managed to trash the user accounts in the process. My laptop at least I got back with a system restore but the server had to be restored from backup. I never used to believe the tales about it wrecking machines but now I do.
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I installed yesterday security update on my Win 8.1 desktop. No ill-effect that I can see. However, what are the "known issues". I don't want to install anything on my laptop until I know what's going on.
EDIT: Just read this:
http://www.zdnet.com/what-went-wrong-with-microsofts...
Even if a fraction of systems are affected, it's troubling. I'm going to change my update settingS.
Edited by ARD (Fri 29-Aug-14 12:41:07)
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Because for a minority of users the odd update wrecks their computer.
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These are the updated "fixed" updates. these should be okay. I've downloaded them onto 3 pc's and no problems so far
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Because for a minority of users the odd update wrecks their computer.
A very very small minority.
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I take an image before patch Tuesday.
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I installed it and all seems fine. The link above suggests that Microsoft are getting sloppy about testing the updates before sending them out and I think that we all need to be a bit wary nowadays.
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Windows updates must be a nightmare to test though. Thousands off different PC setups, and the most obscure thing can break an update (as shown here with some font files not being in the default folder). Only so much you can test for really
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And a very, very, very, very small minority is still a lot of users.
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That's totally subjective.
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Because for a minority of users the odd update wrecks their computer. In my case I'm not sure it was the update itself (or themselves since it was two different updates at different times). It 'felt' more like something Windows Update itself had done. I rebooted and both machines stuck at the 'Welcome' screen. In both cases it seems my user profiles got trashed. I think on the server my maintenance account still worked implying it wasn't a problem reading profiles in general.
Weird :-/
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Brackley, UK
Edited by Andrue (Sat 30-Aug-14 18:48:01)
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My computers always set a restore point before updating (I think that's standard) but I wonder how many users would know how to restore if their computer wouldn't boot. One thing that's always annoyed me is how difficult the boot/BIOS menu screen is to access immediately after power-on. One of my laptops gives you literally one second to press a key.
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The user profile for a Vista user friend of mine failed after an update last week. Restored from a restore point the day prior to the update and all is now ok.
The next couple of updates were ok as well.
Computers, huh - who'd have them?
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What a load of tosh. Billions of users and even 0.01% is still a lot.
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Since when was "a very, very, very, very small minority" 0.01%?
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Go on then, what in your expert opinion is a "small minority"?
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As a rule of thumb 49% is a minority so 4.9% is a small minority and 0.49% is a very small minority etc
(just made this rule up)
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Sort of tallies with what I was thinking!
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Did you two have a hand in the new National Curriculum for maths by any chance?
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Can't do any worse than the current incumbent.
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