Then follow the instructions in the section “Break out of the endless update loop,” below, to make sure you aren’t tossed back into the fire. Once you’re in Safe Mode, follow the instructions in the section “Make sure your problem is the patch,” below, to uninstall the aberrant cumulative update. Unfortunately, booting into Safe Mode isn’t as easy in Windows 10 as it was in Windows 8.1 (or any other Windows, for that matter). My old friend Lincoln Spector has the rundown on booting into Safe Mode in a PC World article from last October. Ninety times (or at least 50, hard to say) out of 100, you can get back to a working machine by booting into Safe Mode, uninstalling the cumulative update, blocking it, then rebooting normally. The cumulative update installs itself (possibly overnight, while you aren’t looking), and when you come back to your machine, nothing happens. Recover from a bricked PCįor most people this is the scariest situation. It's rudimentary, but it works surprisingly often. If you’re having problems with a mouse or keyboard, or a monitor or speaker, try plugging them into another computer to see if they’re dead. That’ll scan your main drive and fix any errors. At the very least, anyone with a cumulative update problem should right-click Start, choose Command prompt, type chkdsk /f in the box and press Enter. It’s the old post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.Ĭonsider the possibility that your problem has nothing to do with the cumulative update. Sure, your PC went to Hades in a handbasket right after you installed the latest cumulative update, but that doesn’t mean the update caused the problem.
Check for mundane hardware problemsĬoincidences happen. Make sure your antivirus software is turned off. You may find yourself coming back again and again. And if your Windows 10 updating experience has been stable, consider yourself among the lucky.įor the rest of us, bookmark this page. Instead, it tackles the most common problems, offering the most common solutions. This isn’t meant to be an exhaustive list of problems and solutions.
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