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The Windows Update That Replaces the Update That Prevented Further Updates

Category killer in the “You can’t make this stuff up” category:

Update to prevent update prevention error
Update to prevent update prevention error

I vaguely recall similar errors in Ubuntu’s updater and I suppose everybody gets it wrong occasionally.

Comments

3 responses to “The Windows Update That Replaces the Update That Prevented Further Updates”

  1. solaandjin Avatar
    solaandjin

    I guess it’s not helpful for people who have already been afflicted, but maybe for people who are catching up, if you manage to get both updates at the same time it all works out?

    1. Ed Avatar
      Ed

      Apparently MS pulled the offending update a few days (?) after it emerged, so if you run Windows as infrequently as I do, there wasn’t a problem.

      If your PC automatically installed the first one, I don’t know how you’d dig yourself from that hole, because you might never even notice the PC isn’t getting updated…

      1. Red County Pete Avatar
        Red County Pete

        Not sure how they worked it, but the problematic one got installed on 12/10 in my machine, while the one to unscrew it managed to get installed 12/12. I suspect MS has ways… (FWIW, I manually start the search and load for the updates–the jiggered one might have affected the fully automagic search and destroy load update process.)