Cumulative updates - September 2020

To be honest it's unlikely that all this information could be lost; in my experience it takes a hard disk failure to lose everything. I've had corrupted boot sectors before and managed to recover all the data, it was just a pain having to reinstall all the programs again.

I recall I had an issue with the last big Windows update where the first attempt to install fell over; when it went OK the second time i thought it was all OK, but it must have mucked something up. I can say that it now runs faster than it did pre-restore, so it definitely fixed something.

Perhaps instead of worrying about a fancy backup, you just manually copy anything you really can't replace to somewhere safe like the cloud or DVDs and then give it a go.

P.S. I ran Services.msc; all the items that were disabled (about a dozen for me) were non-essential; most would just lengthen boot time as they check whether they need to update programs. About half the rest are manual, which looked in many cases as what this means is that they are triggered by something. I saw no need to change anything.

 Right click Start, Windows PowerShell (Admin), Wait for PROMPT "PS C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32>" Enter "services.msc" (no quotation marks), all of your services will come up.Almost everything was disabled. One by one I went in and changed the Status TO AUTOMATIC.

Hi Miabear - Don't mean to hijack this  reply to Steve, but  I just followed your instructions.  While I found 3 items that were disabled, I changed them to AUTOMATIC.  I should have kept track of which ones I changed. Mybad.  MANY of the items say MANUAL.  Should the MANUAL ones also be saved to AUTOMATIC?  I'm beginning to see a new computer in my future due to all this......  a BIG MAC perhaps.  Thanks for the help.

Hey Steve, been working on this for 48 hours now. I am creeping back from being cut off at the knees (no internet, no sound) many others are stuck even worse. I don't know other than what actions I have followed to at least get me back online and with sound but still lagging in many areas. What I followed and helped was Right click Start, Windows PowerShell (Admin), Wait for PROMPT "PS C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32>" Enter "services.msc" (no quotation marks), all of your services will come up.Almost everything was disabled. One by one I went in and changed the Status TO AUTOMATIC.

Right click and go to Properties, under Startup Type: You will see disabled. Click the drop box down and choose automatic. Close and go on to the next one. That is the only way I was able to reactivate what I could including internet adapters, audio and Microsoft's Shadow files to open the system restore services. This at least gave me access back to many features but my system is still too unstable but it at least allows me to access many things to try to recuperate from this nightmare. Good luck everyone.

hi all, since the last update I can't get multiple things to work on my pc.

I have lost audio, Internet (doest even show anything) 

Any help would be great. Thanks 

OMG, you are in the thick of it.  I can't help with most of your issues.  I've been having internet (lost) connections many times over the past few days.  Sometimes the repair wizard will fix it... when that doesn't work,  I need to unplug my modem, wait 30 seconds, plug back in and I have internet access again.  Truly frustrating!  Sure wish I could be of more help. 

Let us know if you are able to fix things (and how you did.)

I've done my system restore and it has worked. Sorry, would have done it earlier, but I was watching F1 free practice and doing other stuff on the PC and you need around 90 minutes to do the restore (times will vary according to your PC and what you have installed I imagine).

Everything is now working fine for me and all updates are installed. I used the USB option and apart from having to reboot a couple of times it was all hands off.

I would suggest anyone who has an issue should try this method. For anyone who hasn't followed this conversation and can't be bothered to look, I'll re-post the link to what you have to do:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4000735/windows-10-reinstall

I'm so glad this worked out for you!! F1 free practice eh? I'm a Nascar fan, although I'll watch F1 occasionally.

In reading that article YET AGAIN.... it's a bit scary to think I could lose MUCH information/ apps/files, etc. if I opt to do this. Not sure I'm ready to make the plunge quite yet!  Which option did you choose when you did the restore???  Whenever I look for installed updates, all it shows is a 1 driver (that failed to update.)  It never shows me what the latest cumulative updates that were installed on my machine. ????????

I've had this problems since day 1. It  NEVER shows me my windows updates. Least of my problems I guess.

Glad you were successful!  I just keep hoping MS comes out with a fix for this mess, before I go and ruin things even more on my own.

We need a white-hat hacker/cracker to come out with a free-standing app" WINDOWS UPDATE B-GONE" that will fix this MESS. I'm sure it's possible...  :D -  Thanks again.