Microsoft’s August Windows 11 patch cycle has produced two very different but equally alarming headlines this week: an emergency mitigation for enterprise update delivery failures, and community reports that the same cumulative update may be triggering storage devices to become unreadable or...
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Having left Windows Update running for a day and a night - over 24 hours - it still displays "Checking for updates..." with the progress bar happily drifting from left to right.
I was advised (elsewhere to:
Disconnect from internet
Restart PC
Manually run 1st install (KB3102810)
Restart PC
Run...
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I was hoping you might be able to point me to a resource that could help a relative having trouble upgrading to Windows 7 - 32-Bit on a mainstream PC built for Windows XP. I was a bit disappointed that he was on a call with support for 1 ½ hours to help him through a BSOD issue. In the end...
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