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

Since this update installed my user account (mine us the admin account on the laptop) is missing. I have to login using my daughters user account to use the laptop. What has happened? And where is my account and all my files?

Its simply far to risky to depend on safe mode or 4 reboots given the havoc these updates are causing. Best to wait until Microsoft stste officially that they have solved the problem. In the meantime its best to stop all Windows 10 updates. this has to be a serious problem given how long its taking Microsoft to solve it.

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Gary P41,

I am moving that direction also and have already installed LibreOffice on both of my Windows computers to try it out before committing to Linux. It does everything Microsoft Office does and maybe more and better. You can even download the source code if you're a programmer and want to tweek the internals. Plus, it runs on Linux. Also have installed Thunderbird to replace Outlook but Mozilla no longer supports it and is an independent group now. God bless all the professional programmers who donate their time and expertise to provide these free alternatives to Microsoft. I'm going to try and retain dual boot capability until I feel comfortable with Linux.

I have found THE SOLUTION to all of these;

LINUX

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It's free, it's fast, doesn't hold my computers hostage, doesn't sell my information to anyone.

It does have a healthy learning curve, but it is pretty much a trade off;

time spent fixing/ researching/ reloading WIN=time spent learning Linux commands.

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Found FREE

Word processors (in my opinion>MS Office [any version I've used])

Spread sheets                    "                 "

Photo Editing Programs

Movie Editing Programs

, Another month of learning, +/- , I will delete and trash all of my MS programs.

And will then say adieu.

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PS; Keep me in mind if any of you start a Class Action Suit against MS I will join that.

Shouldn't the 'Lemon Law' apply against them, at least in California? (maybe that's just for autos)