New And Improved Rant Thread, now with 50% more profanity!

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Originally Posted by ceptimus

One of my Windows PCs got stuck in a loop installing updates. When I powered it down it said 'don't switch off - installing updates.' Then the next time I powered it on it would say after a while, 'Failure configuring Windows Updates - reverting changes' then reboot a few times.

So it was still usable but just added about 5 minutes to each power up and power down phase.

I've been trying to fix it for days, and am now in the process of manually installing all the updates, one at a time with reboots after each. For every manual reboot, the PC usually reboots itself automatically another 5 times or so.

However, I do seem to be making progress, with only 3 'important' updates left on the list now.

Normal swears are insufficient to convey my feelings about this, so I shall have to be content with just the one mega-swear: Microsoft.

Sounds familiar