I'm very angry right now.

LOL

One day I'll have to try that.

Been there done that... Had to eat raw pumpkin seeds...

Probably had picked it up form the cats. It's why you ALWAYS wash your hands after petting an animal...


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PantelisWin said:

I hope all you guys doing good.
Firstly, I managed to get the latest 2023-11 cumulative update, after 1 month of its release.
I'm not mentioning how many hours it took, to finish (at least with my low-end pc)
aand.. today this morning I booted up, and I saw.. a mess
All my taskbar icons, was eranged to the left of my screen.. I didnt got a backup for this unfortunately...
My start screen was ok, but I saw onedrive (I never used it btw) and something new, like an backup and restore app (M$ app)
Microsoft said that unistalled some legacy apps, that made me more angrier (I used some of them) (thank god didnt reinstalled my old games, on other hand ! )
Well,, and there is more (my 8-gadget pack gadgets gone, some of my personal settings was reset, fonts and lock screen font reset...)

If there is more I found, I will update

Yeah, I mean, that's sort of inevitable if an OS uses auto-update processes.

Not much you can do against that ...
Not patching is not a good solution.

The good part about all of this is : make sure you're always ready to fix your installation. Imagine your disk crashes, and it costs you 500 euros and 8 weeks to get 20% of data recovered (but not a working Windows). What if that happens ?

I would just chuck the disk, get a new one, re-install Windows and use my backup for anything missing.
If a Windows update goes really wrong (never happened yet), I would do similar.

I actually re-install Windows (even when running perfectly OK) to 1. test my backup procedure and 2. get a clean Windows. But, that is me.