Cumulative updates - February 11th 2020

In relation to fixing the temporary profile issue after installing KB4532693, three out of four computers in the household did not have any issues but the fourth was affected after updating, found that the user profile that was being used to install the update (my own admin user account) was the only one with the profile issue and not the other two (also admin) accounts that were on the computer as those profiles seemed unaffected by the update.

Tried booting into safe mode, leaving safe mode and trying a few restarts etc which did not seem to work but after removing the KB4532693 update had found my user profile was back to what it should be.

In the end I managed to install the update without any issues and with no broken user profiles by creating a new user administrative local only account and installed the update from there by downloading the update from the Microsoft update catalog.

Note: this might work using windows update from that account too but did not try this as I had paused windows update to prevent the update reinstalling by itself.

The new user account that was created just to install the KB4532693 update also did not appear to have any profile issues afterwards.

The steps I took:

1. Uninstalled KB4532693 with the broken profile account, paused windows updates
2. Restarted
3. Created a new user administrative local only account just for installing the update - I named it "updatetemp"
4. Logged in to the newly created user account, installed KB4532693 downloaded from the update catalog
5. Restarted
6. Signed back into my own user account with no issues.

Hope this helps

  When there was a safety recall, or product upgrade to my Tahoe, when I got it home I don't have to get under the hood and take something off, then reinstall it myself. I have never had to buy a third party anything to make it run properly, or safely.

  Again it is the same thing with MS and what I perceive as their ongoing (I can only assume, is intentional) incompetence.

  One has to wonder why, with the arrival of the quad core CPUs and all that bandwidth, they didn't write a rock solid operating system. Instead they rewrote (again, WIN3,WIN3.1, XP, VISTA, WIN7, WIN8, WIN8.1, WIN10) an already week, easily manipulated program.

I am absolutely furious, I have just got my laptop working as I wanted only for MS to force a crappy update on me that has totally borked it! Well done MS! Why can't we go back to a system of allowing users to select updates one at a time if necessary?

Thanks, that sounds like a really clever solution! I’ll try it tomorrow.