Posted on 11/26/2019 7:31:39 PM PST by dayglored
Absolutely, definitely a complete surprise
DYKE-PLUGGING SOFTWARE BORKER Microsoft has done it again.
The company released the November 2019 Update to Windows 10 earlier this month and lo and behold, there's a problem.
Windows updates have become a running joke since before the legendary Build 1809 debacle which saw the company actively roll back the update.
This time, the problem is reasonably fundamental - File Explorer searches are broken in the 1909 build.
The more eagle-eyed amongst you will know that one of the few features in this latest update is…. better searching in File Explorer. The idea was that it would gain many of the powers of Windows Search - allowing you to check your OneDrive and the like with one search string.
In reality, it appears to be doing a lot of, well, freezing, then hanging.
This is pretty basic stuff and for a feature that is actually singled out for mention in the new release to be so broken highlights, once again, that the company's testing processes are simply not up to the task.
With no disrespect to the Insider Community (Microsoft's name for its beta testing team), this should surely have been spotted there, and so either Microsoft needs to be a lot clearer as to what needs testing, or it needs to actually start listening to the feedback it gets from them.
What's even more galling, perhaps, is that Build 1909 isn't actually a new build at all - commentators have likened it more to a Service Pack for Build 1903.
As such, the chances of anything being so showstopping as this was greatly reduced, and yet, here we are.
Add to that the fact that it has already been blocked from installation for several groups including those working with certain WiFi/Bluetooth modules, and anyone running a slightly older version of AVG or Avast, and Microsoft's 'safe' mini-update is highlighting just how poor the testing process really is. μ
I updated my mac to the latest OS a few weeks ago. It started slowing down and crashing periodically. It would run for a few days then pow, a crash out of nowhere. My first inclination was to blame the os upgrade. The fix was simple. I reinstalled the memory and no more crashes. It was just coincidence I started having problems when I did the upgrade..
I haven’t had any issues with 10 or the updates (did have to update the BIOS on both the desktop and Laptop early on though).
Maybe I’m just lucky...the biggest problem I have is my downloads folder indexes things by when they were downloaded and I haven’t figured how to make it display normally - of course, I could just empty it out and use another folder to download to...
We have ONE Windows 10 computer.
Thats it.
Several W 7 laptop machines as well.
Three Macs (all running W 7 or 8.1 via Parallels).
I spend 99% of my troubleshooting time on that damn W10 laptop.
There are a lot of people who have had no trouble at all with Win10, including the updates. Generally speaking, they're the ones who either have very "plain vanilla" standard-issue systems with no fancy programs other than maybe Office and a browser. Or they are tech-savvy folks who, through experience, are better able to discern problem symptoms on the horizon before they become real problems.
Software bugs can get tickled by certain orders of operations, so if you have 100's of millions of users, you can pretty much guarantee that some of them will hit every possible combination of operation orders, and tickle the bugs.
And yes, LUCK plays into it as well.
> the biggest problem I have is my downloads folder indexes things by when they were downloaded and I haven’t figured how to make it display normally - of course, I could just empty it out and use another folder to download to...
You should be able to change the sorting order. Try setting the "View" option to "Details", and select the column you want to sort on.
Tried that - it actually has delineated sections that tell you the date/recency of the download and setting the details/views doe nothing to get it to display as a clean folder with contents.
I don’t have any exotic programs loaded on my machines and I have relied on Windows Defender for a number of years now with no issues.
My setting are for critical updates and display of other available update (drivers and such) rather than allowing them to roll in “just because”....if they show updated drivers, i check the manufacturer for their latest version because Microsoft hasn’t always made things better with their drivers...also tend to not update if there’s no issue with current drivers.
Color me surprised. NOT.
“With no disrespect to the Insider Community(Microsoft’s name for its beta testing team)...”
That’s odd; I thought the name for the Microsoft beta testing team was “everyday users”.
The everyday end-users are the "beta-test" team.
The Insider Community is the "alpha-test" team.
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