verifying what others have posted in regards to the 2023-10 update no longer appearing (or in my case, not appearing again)

here's what I did..

Step 1: go to add/remove programs, find and uninstall 2024-03 (it'll be near the bottom of most lists)

Step 2: check for updates again (or press "try again")

Step 3: the...

laptop went smoothly.. the only real bottleneck is that the download of the cumulative took a bit longer than usual on both devices

also the laptop has a preview of the Copilot, which has been...

Desktop went smoothly enough, although with an unorthodox sequence of updates (MSRT then Defender Definitions then Cumulative)

Next up, laptop. At least the laptop is installing the definitions...

no mods, the button shows up when you go to search and look for something

yeah, send money if you want us to do the tech support because you messed something up

Just tried again on the Desktop and still no luck. So i'll just wait it out there.

I don't know what the recovery partition looks like on the laptop but apparently it's one W10 device that can...

remember 6 years ago when Spectre became a thing and Windows updates were moved to everybody instead of just Intel people? they might be using the same approach here to just patch everybody instead...

one thing I noticed in this update is that two things sped up the Cumulative Update speed

1) the system restore work was done before the Security Update, so some of the downtime waiting for the...

this update did successfully install itself on my laptop, so take your pick in what this means

1) something was fixed in the hour since I last tried to install the update on the desktop and when I...

yeah this one isn't installing for me on the desktop and I'm not going the multipart process to make it work

if they don't think enough people are experiencing errors for them to fix it, then I...

quickest update i've had on the desktop since August, i"ve made sure to use this extra time to do nothing productive

There's an "open app" button when you search for a program now.

As for the download/reboot. It was slowwww again this month. The reboot was also slow with a variety of "The winlogon notification...

Update; this update was also slow on the other machine. But not as slow since it's a faster machine. For whatever reason, the update just grinded to a halt longer at 74% than the norm and on the...

If I had to pick any term to describe this update, it would be the phrase "preposterously slow"

Some of the slowness involved the Windows Defender update service running twice during the update,...

the cleanup around here went on for awhile

the one crumb it left to indicate that something was done was a message of "TrustedInstaller took 698 seconds to handle the notification event...

meanwhile the other machine is asking for a reboot for the .NET update (hopefully people don't get confused by the "Restart now" button being up while the Cumulative Update downloads.

I was surprised that this didn't require a reboot on the machine that usually insists upon reboots for NET updates.

This might be specific to my setup but i've found that installations can take a little bit of time to get going if my computer is checking if it needs to create a restore point before installing the...

This one was a little more glacial than the usual update

It took from 12:30 (CDT) to 12:35 to install an antimalware platform update

then from 12:35 to 12:38 to install the definition update
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This just happened on the laptop. But you don't need to throw your computer out the window or hit the "check for updates" button when it happens. Just close the window and then open it again and...

One thing I noticed and I read a person mentioning it on Reddit is that if you follow the updates on the Settings/Updates, it goes to the Green Checkmark "You're Up To Date" screen before the updates...

Both devices updated. So far they have not dissolved into a pillar of salt. Only thing that really slowed down the desktop was that the Store decided to download an update during the download of the...

My other device didn't require any "Cleaning Up". The difference between the first and second update experiences was that the second one didn't involve needing a reboot to install the .NET update. I...

Had to wait on the "Cleaning Up" screen for the first time in a few months. Pretty sure the 3 times i've had a "Cleaning Up" screen on an update reboot involved updating .NET and it needing a reboot...