KB5004945 Windows 10 2004 19041.1083, 20H2 19042.1083, 21H1 19043.1083 Win Update

Installed very fast, everything OK

Woke up this morning requesting a reboot lol. All good.

khoi3003 said:

Just installed on 1 system and running fine so far. Gonna do the other some time later this week.

Just finished 2nd machine, all seems fine as well

Downloaded and installed both KB5003537 and KB5004945 just now. Everything done and running smoothly!
Now on 19043.1083.

steve108 said:

Installed on two PCs. So far, no issues

Not sure if it's related to this KB, but one of the two PCs had corruption when I ran "sfc /scannow" after installing this KB.

After running dism with /restorehealth, then running sfc again, the corruption issue is resolved.

2nd PC didn't have this issue, so again, probably unrelated.

steve108 said:

Not sure if it's related to this KB, but one of the two PCs had corruption when I ran "sfc /scannow" after installing this KB.

After running dism with /restorehealth, then running sfc again, the corruption issue is resolved.

2nd PC didn't have this issue, so again, probably unrelated.

Just what is 'corruption'? It's a catch-all word that people toss around, and as such doesn't mean anything. Chase down some of those sfc errors in \CBS\CBS.log. Most of them are something like this:

Directory \??\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\ is owned twice or has its security set twice

I have a few questions: How does this happen? It's been happening for years. Cosmic rays? Why do people just shrug their shoulders and put up with this "corruption", as if it were somehow inevitable, like the weather. Why is every single update on Windows so fraught that everyone feels a need to check in to say they got it smoothly, or it totally screwed up in this or that way? Why is this even acceptable?

I'm sure you can add your own questions to this list.