Posted on 08/11/2015 8:53:05 PM PDT by dayglored
Microsoft has just released a fix for a Windows 10 software update said to be causing machines to enter a restart loop. A patch for a patch? Yes, this is patchception.
The troublesome update, titled KB3081424 was released last week, and it didn't take long for users to voice their issues with it on a Microsoft support forum. Many users reported the update was causing their machines to restart over and over again.
But the company is now pointing to a newer update that fixes the bug, a Microsoft spokesperson told Mashable in an email.
The update is initially downloaded to the system, then a machine restarts to install it. It partly installs the update, then restarts again. It does this several times until you're told the update failed to install, then you're brought back to the login, according to users. "This happens without fail every single time," according to a user who goes by BrettDM on the Microsoft support forum.
Users had discovered a workaround to the endless-reboot problem before Microsoft issued a fix. But it involved going into the computer's registry editor, a part of the operating system where most users fear to tread.
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Who thought this was a good idea?
Still very happy with 7.
Yep, went right back to it.
Time to go back to my old tagline.
How is it that a company that has thousands of the brightest minds in the software business, can’t get a piece of software that has been around for ages ... to work right the first time as basically nothing more than an upgrade?
Both taglines are awesome.
That is because MS is a marketing company, not a technology company, and they have buffaloed the general public into believing that they innovate, when in reality they just make poor copies of other firm's inventions.
Word is that every time it restarted the name of windows was changing from windows 10 to windows 11,12,13 ect...
OK... Just kidding.
Why thank you, glad you like ‘em! I wish I could take credit for either, but the one about meditation is an ancient Zen saying, and the one about strange women is Monty Python (Dennis from “Holy Grail”).
You are welcome. I must have missed the one about meditation. Can you share that one with me?
The two taglines were about strange women distributing swords. The second one referred to that system to be “looking pretty good about now”.
Once again, I enjoyed them. :) I think I will be looking up the Holy Grail movie soon.
That's not quite fair. Granted, Lord knows I've accused Microsoft of failing to innovate, and either buying or stealing other's ideas, but that's not ALL they do -- they have come up with some really innovative things in years past.
The problem has been that for the past 15 years they were run by Steve Ballmer, one of the poorest tech-company CEOs in history. He was a Sales guy, and all he thought about was consolidating MS's grip on the enterprise by way of the Windows monopoly. He was blind to the idea of doing anything truly innovative. Which of course is why every third word out of his (and Bill Gates') mouth during that time was "innovate". All lies.
But don't give short shrift to the brilliant engineers and other tech people at Microsoft. Given an opportunity they will rise and shine again. I think they will eventually get there with Windows 10.
Stumbles along the way are unavoidable.
The intermediate one about meditation was around for a month or two, and appears in comments #4 and earlier, above in this thread.
I went to Best Buy yesterday and checked out the laptops running 10.
About 15 minutes in, I said “Nah” and left.
MS can keep their “free upgrade”.
“Moistened bint”
:)
> “Moistened bint”
Quite a term, that. Don’t think I’ve ever had a girl friend who fit that description, and my fiancée is many wonderful things but not that. Though the last band I played in had some girl fans who came pretty close... Especially toward the end of the night, after the show... “Drenched” was more like it... LOL
So Windows 10 irritatingly reboots like Drudge does?
it is interesting I have windows vista and it would reboot too to install an adobe font manager. I have windows 7 that would reboot for win 10 upgrade. A windows 8.1 that would reboot to upgrade to windows 10. I have a windows 8.1 rt tablet too that wouldn’t install a update and reboot too. Now all of them update works ok now.
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