Bork Tuesday, Any Problems Yet?

The last cumulative update which wouldn't install, kept failing to install no matter how many times I tried. It was easiest just to hide the update so that whenever I reboot (which admittedly is usually not that often), I do have to wait a few minutes while Windows tries to install the update, fails to install it, and then the changes are rolled back.

 

Rolling back changes during a reboot, I have never experienced, if or when you find the reason please let us know...

 

Windows tries to install the update twice, then says it failed to installed it and says it is rolling back the changes.

 

No issues here as always.

 

Cumulative update KB4013429 installed on the second attempt. It lasted a couple of minutes to download and install. Anyhow it wasn't a big issue for me. At least I had enough time for a morning coffe.

 

@pegas, Are you still updating Vista?

 

Unified Windows update history for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...update-history-for-windows-8-1-and-windows-7/

 

Yeah, you reminded me that I have a VAIO. I had not run this laptop more than a year, so I'm afraid to boot it up now. I reckon it would end up in an endless loop of updates. But one day, when I will have available all day or two, I will give it a try.

 

I have a 'beautiful' old Asus desktop replacement with Vista Ultimate which I have been trying to update in 2016, with problems more often than not (as we know MS has been erratic in updating old OSs). It got to the point that starting the machine would take more than 2 minutes whereas normally 40 seconds was required, and other strange behaviour was also to be seen. As malware was not responsible, I thought what the hell, I can't update it anymore, I restored a two years old image, and voila', everything was working perfectly as it should. Bottom line? I don't want to speculate about MS updates breaking old OSs, but ever since I stopped updating it (it is Vista SP2) the computer is fast as when I first bought it 9 years ago...

 

Thanks, good to know before the adventure of booting up my VAIO begins. Anyway, to be honest, I'm used to update everything without delay. It relates to all my devices regardless of OS. So, as soon as any update is available on my Android, iOS and Win machines I install it and I never had so serious issue that would force me to change my approach. Naturally some minor issues happen from time to time, as for instance today with the cumulative update on my Win 10 machine, but generally all issues I ever had were resolved easily. This counts also for Vista OS. I was updating it regularly until I was using it everyday. I don't know if I was so blessed but my VAIO machine was running pretty well with all Vista updates and patches. However now some issues can be expected when the VAIO has not been run so long. One day we will see.

 

Remember: Windows Vista support ends next month
http://www.ghacks.net/2017/03/11/remember-windows-vista-support-ends-next-month/

 

Yes I know but I'm not going to use this laptop.

 

More reports of Win10 cumulative update KB 4013429 breaking MS Dynamics CRM 2011 https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/win10-march-cumulative-update-kb-4013429-breaks-display-of-forms-in-ms-dynamics-crm-2011/ …

 

I was working on a Vista computer recently, and after upgrading to SP2, it seem to be taking longer to start up. However, one of my own laptops is running Vista with SP2 and fully updated up to February of this year (it looks like it will take time to find the more recent updates again), and it runs quite fast. It's eleven years old and has a fairly slow Core Duo processor (not even core 2 duo), but runs really well.

 

I would also expect no problems with Vista on my VAIO unless it would be regularly updated. As I said, the machine had performed pretty well with all Vista updates/patches when I was using it. However I don't know what's gonna happen when I boot it up after more than a year.

 

What a saga! Eventually got this month's Win 10 updates through.

On my secondary machine, WU worked, but after several attempts.

On my primary machine, I had to resort to downloading KB4103429 and KB4013418 from MS Update Catalog and installing manually, and after several more WU attempts, purging WU download cache to get the rest through.

In both cases, the Cumulative Update was very slow.

The whole process has taken me the better part of a day.

 

https://arstechnica.com/security/20...unprecedented-patch-delay-doesnt-smell-right/

 

No big deal. It just took Microsoft a month to figure out how to fix the vulnerabilities. So what else is new?

 

I doubt that they would postpone all updates just to fix some new vulnerabilities.

 

I agree, something else big was going on. I see it as just rampant incompetence coming out of MS nowadays....

 

Medium problem with that also. I'm waiting to determine whether it was the update per se, or VoodooShield with Self Protection enabled. There are reports of problems with kb4013429 elsewhere that likely don't involve VS, so .... At this point, it's doubtful I'm going to keep VS installed when the Creators Build is ready, let alone disable it.

MS? What's that? Never heard of it.

 

I don't know what caused the delay but I rather prefer to have a delayed update than on time but botched.

 

If Mary Jo can not coax it out of any of her inside contacts, it must be on fear of death if they speak. This leads me to assume it was a very serious problem. I just hope they were not hacked.

 

I also initially wondered about VS 3.54, but I don't think it was VS. I had rolled back to 3.53, and had it disabled. Two other machines, with VS free installed, had no issues, with VS on Autopilot.