Subj : Microsofts blunders with new Windows 10 update are causing seriou
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Mar 21 2023 10:45:03

Microsofts blunders with new Windows 10 update are causing serious headaches

Date:
Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:39:11 +0000

Description:
Windows 10s latest update suffers from some weird bugs, including telling you 
its installed, when it actually isnt.

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 Windows 10 is running into some serious hot water thanks to the latest patch 
from Microsoft, according to a number of reports from users outlining a 
variety of problems  some of them pretty worrying in nature. 

This isnt exactly a surprise, mind you, seeing as Windows 11 users have been 
hit by some nasty bugs with the March cumulative update (released a week 
ago). 

In the case of Windows 10, this is the March patch KB5023696 (for versions 
20H2 onwards), and as Windows Latest points out, the update is causing some 
alarming problems. 

Some readers have been in touch directly with the website complaining about 
performance issues, with one person experiencing their fan running at full 
speed post-update. This was with a Dell all-in-one PC, and the fan went back 
to normal after uninstalling the March update, suggesting that the patch is 
the culprit. 

Further problems are in evidence across Microsofts Answers.com support forum 
and the firms Feedback Hub, as well as Reddit , with folks again being hit 
with various performance issues (including high CPU usage), and also Blue 
Screen of Death (BSoD) crashes where the PC locks up and must be rebooted. 
Comment from r/Windows10 

As you can see, in the above Reddit thread, theres also an odd complaint that 
the update tells you that its finished  with the youre up to date message  
when in actual fact, the patch is still installing in the background. 

This is reportedly happening to numerous users, and if you close the Settings 
panel after getting the message, then reopen it, youll see that the update is 
still in progress. Analysis: Come on Microsoft, get your act together 

The falsely-reported 'installation has finished' message could be quite a 
nasty problem if you go to shut down your PC when the update is actually 
still running  although presumably Windows will inform you that processes are 
still underway and stop the shutdown. But if not, theres potential for files 
to be corrupted if an update installation is interrupted mid-flow, which 
could be very bad news. 

Interestingly, another user on Reddit reports that their laptop died  
completely and irrevocably  after they accidentally shut down the notebook in 
the middle of the update (by closing the lid). Nasty indeed  but this is a 
single instance, of course, so we cant read too much into that. 

All in all, this isnt a good month for Microsoft, first of all with those 
reports of Windows 11 and problems pertaining to solid-state drive slowdown  
with SSDs having their performance seriously hamstrung  and now we have a 
bunch of Windows 10 issues making their unwelcome presence felt. 

Whats also rather mystifying here is yet more reports of installation 
failures with meaningless error messages (hexadecimal nonsense). These have 
been ongoing for longer than we care to remember, and its about time 
Microsoft did a better job of stamping out these mysterious setup failures 
(or at least making them more informative).



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/microsofts-blunders-with-new-windows-10-update-
are-causing-serious-headaches


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