Windows 10 October 2018 Update rollout now paused

jamis said:

I feel sorry for those folks who haven't invested the time and expense to learn and equip themselves for backup. But it's not limited to the non-professionals out there. When I was a Systems Engineer with that big computer company with the stripped logo, I had a Fortune 500 class customer with very lax backup & oversight protocols. They had over 50 distributed systems scattered around the country and their OS update philosophy was to only apply fixes when support for the current version was expiring. We contractually sent Customer Engineers to the remote sites to do a version upgrade after two years of installation. The CEs found the cartridge tape drives full of factory dirt and unusable. Turned out no one had been backing up the systems since installation. Fortunately, not a single system had an issue during that time. That was equivalent to over 110 years of up time. Yes, heads were knocked at Corporate over that episode.

Yup amazing how poor some top companies backup routines are...

Funny story... as an up-'n-coming Dev and not knowing SQL that well, wrote a stored procedure that updated the database but missed a where clause proviso (so now everything in select clause gets updated... )...

...then signed in inadvertantly to Production instead of Test server and updated a bunch of live records incorrectly... was quick to shut down the system and the DBA re-instated the previous night's backup - so only the morning's data was lost.. needless to say, I was banished to Gotham City since then... LOL

DJG said:

Unfortunately Windows is messing with the overclocking. I was running @ 4600GHz now I'm down to 3700GHz even though the BIOS is set for 4600.

@DJG did you check your power setting in Control Panel?
Or if it is set to balanced(even if you use full C States in BIOS) does Win10 not give you your 4.6GHz under load?
How are you checking your OC? CPU-Z? Aida64? HWInfo? Or just task manager, which is always wrong?

pietcorus2 said:

Thanks for your support Superfly , I do hope you will inform me when a solution appears in future.......

No prob. Send me a list of all your tweaks so that we can have them in a script...

Crizal said:

@SoFine409 -- I got 1809 through the Update Assistant Tuesday night and everything is there and working fine. The only issue I've found is the Windows Defender definition timestamp shows 4 hours earlier than current time on the WD user interface. The time in Windows Update for checks is correct.

What I'm curious about now is whether the lost data issue is related in any way to having a Microsoft account. My computer's on a local account (stopped using the MS account months ago). Two people I know use the MS account and they did lose data.

I use local accounts only on all 3 desktops and 1 laptop.

kado897 said:

Yes it's been around for a while on the insider builds.

And fixed in latest Insider build.