Cumulative updates - September 2020

I have paused recently, thank you hitbit. Which is why I think this unacceptable, especially because I cannot delete the update.

I have spent about 3 hours today trying my best to fix what now seems randomly solved. A couple weeks ago I had my internet service provider engineer spend about the same amount of time trying to fix an issue with random wifi service on and off. I had someone like very kindly help me with things like changing power plans and other quite bizarre ideas and I am fairly computer literate, so I cannot imagine what it's like for others who are not. 

I run ccleaner very regularly as well as spybot and superantispyware. Never had any issues until maybe 2 or 3 months ago.

I admit I am really frustrated with all the bad stuff and right now am crying a little because I am prone to do that when frustrated and am not feeling well. Also ransomware stuff amongst other things as above. Installing updates on peoples' computers when they have specifically turned automatic updating off and having it repeatedly make stuff go wrong and have cortana continually lurk about is just a straw on the camel's back. 

MS go do something good now. Maybe they are doing all this right now because they think people will let it slide.

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The update in conjunction with Avast is creating issues where the firewall's are somehow blocking certain traffic for no reason. 

After I turned off my firewall I was able to update office, and use my mail program mailbird which was not receiving any email from gmail accounts. 

I will continue to monitor this issue and see if it persists but for now the firewall being turned off seems to fix all these issues. It may be an issue from Avast but this should be something that Microsoft and Avast have a conference call over as I cannot be the only one with this issue. 

Office update or install was not working

Mailbird (gmail authentication was not working)

Havent tried anything else. 

Hi,

Have you considered that your Firewall may have identified something harmful trying to embed itself into your system. Perhaps Microsoft want a free run at your pc, perhaps they want to force you into using their security programmes.

hitbit

Hi,

Have you tried stopping the pause and then trying to uninstall the rubbish updates. Ps when you click to pause for 7 days click again and again until you pause for 5 weeks. Unfortunately that's the max I can get. I am resolved to buying a Mac system or a really good android tablet as I think Windows is finished. Since last November I can install updates but cannot log into my account (having tried all and everything but reinstalling windows. I am not prepared to do this as I believe it will become necessary for every update ) but have been able to uninstall the Malware like updates. That is until this last piece of criminal manure which stopped my printer, blocked my WiFi repeatedly when I tried to update any programme and keeps changing my keyboard settings. Another 2 hours of restarting then in and out of safe mode and I managed to get the system up and running to a degree. It would appear Microsoft have lost all interest in Windows an are simply going through the motions. It is incredible that they cannot log me into my own windows account following updates when they can log me into Microsoft Support, Community and Store with the very same log in credentials. Thankfully I did not subscribe, as was my plan, to office opting instead for Ashampoo's very good office 2018, a programme which more than adequately meets my needs.

hitbit

My mom's work (a restaurant chain) just got ransomwared for the second time. Their business has basically gone to nothing and their very sizable employee base is out of work and there aren't other options like if they had closed shop before covid. We're all in the same boat and while ransomware was disgusting before, it's extra bad now. I get how I'm being het up by these operating system issues which are small potatoes in context to covid, but maybe MS could be helping out our countries and most importantly the upcoming US election to make a serious effort to support both the huge number of people who are destitute and struggling to eat. I should say additional group of people to those who were already. Then the whole democracy thing. I'll get off my soapbox. If edge and cortana make a difference in all this I might consider using them.

Not sure if you are US based, but I'm Canadian so this could be an international sh*tstorm ;)