Updates, Updates, We don’t need no stinking Updates!
So Yesterday I noticed my Windows machine was misbehaving a “tad bit” and as such could no longer collect or send emails, or properly access webpages. Now this is not a major problem as my primary machine is Linux, and I keep the windows one for testing & game playing reasons. So I decided to reboot the machine since it had been up and running solidly for a month or so. As I selected reboot, I was asked did I mind it doing some updates? “Whats the worst that can happen?” I thought, and agreed.
Updating 1 of 67
OK. Maybe I should update the machine more often? Ah well, what can you do? What I did was read for the hour it took for the full 67 updates to be applied and the machine to reboot. Upon rebooting I attempted to log in, only for windows to hang at the “loading your preferences” screen. I tried multiple reboots, multiple accounts to try and access the machine every attempted failed. I then had to spend four hours bouncing in and out of safe mode trying to find the actual error, and repair it.
Now my machine is back up and running, I have decided NEVER AGAIN! no more updates for me, its not worth the hassle!
