Broken Windows 10 Update Causes Reboot Loops For Some Users

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @02:30AM from the clippy's-revenge dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian reports that some early adopters of Windows 10 are finding their computers stuck in a reboot loop after installing a particular update. KB3081424 is a cumulative update, packaging together a group of smaller ones for ease of installation. For some users, the update continually fails to finish installing before issuing a reboot command to the PC. "It downloads, reboot to install. Gets to 30% and reboots. Gets to 59% and reboots. Gets to 59% again and then states something went wrong so uninstalling the update. Wait a few minutes and reboot. Back to login screen," said Microsoft forum user BrettDM. "This happens without fail, every single time."

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Re:Forced Updates-- What could POSSIBLY go wrong? by drinkypoo · 2015-08-12 02:43 · Score: 5, Informative

No update cycle is perfect. Problems happen. But being unable to refuse an update, or roll it back, etc., is a recipe for problems galore.
You can do all of those things, although the means are extremely non-obvious.

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