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Another week, another bunch of Windows 10 machines punched by a patch (user profiles scrambled)
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| Feb 14, 2020
| Richard Speed
Posted on 02/14/2020 9:54:54 AM PST by dayglored
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To: Mariner
Im baffled as to why people have trouble with these updates. They are obviously doing something different than me. You probably should count your blessings... your experience is out of the ordinary. Your day will probably eventually come. I am someone who friends and relatives call when their computers go on the blink. A fairly high percentage of the time it has something to do with a Microsoft update. They usually think that they have malware or a hardware malfunction.
To: dayglored
Windows 10 has crashed computers and cost me data loss and $$ to reimage them and reinstall.
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posted on
02/14/2020 11:39:33 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Bullish
Mines working fine with the new updates.thanks, I guess you're the one.
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posted on
02/14/2020 11:40:48 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Mariner
I have been auto-updating for at least 10 years and never had a single problem.Consider yourself lucky and back everything up while you can and make sure you have a reboot disc/drive.
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posted on
02/14/2020 11:42:18 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: dayglored
Your posts and the ensuing comments on FR and The Register provide my daily entertainment. Occasionally I learn something of value. Continue posting.
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posted on
02/14/2020 11:58:38 AM PST
by
chulaivn66
("...government will follow its natural tendency to despotism.")
To: Kirkwood
You just need to figure out the minimal amount of drivers your PC needs to function. I have Win 7 and a Ryzen 5 working together.
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posted on
02/14/2020 12:10:15 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: dayglored
Grateful Win 7 user forever here. Whew!
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posted on
02/14/2020 12:25:26 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Mayor Pete is not running to win. He's running to mainstream homosexuality. ~ Cowboy Bob)
To: CatOwner; Dacula
Use Norton 360 and MalwareBytes Premium, and you won’t get hacked.
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posted on
02/14/2020 12:33:43 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: carriage_hill
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posted on
02/14/2020 12:35:19 PM PST
by
timestax
To: carriage_hill
I have MalwareBytes Premium but not a fan of Norton. Too much of a resource hog. JMHO
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posted on
02/14/2020 1:24:51 PM PST
by
Dacula
To: dayglored
Updated about 2 months ago and this happened to one of my Windows 10 laptops. It now has version 1909
Windows 10 bad update I have Windows 10 installed on a laptop and had decided to "upgrade" from version 1807 to the latest Windows 10 version 1909. It was released on November 12, 2019.
Big mistake as the upgrade did not go well. I had my 'my name' profile folder but also ended up with a TEMP, TEMP.WINDOWS10, TEMP.WINDOWS10.000, TEMP.WINDOWS10.000.001 profile folders.
In the registry it show the user profile as: C:\Users\TEMP.WINDOWS10.000.001
I could not log into Windows.
Error message:
The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded
I logged in as the admin. If you do not have a Administrator option next to your own profile then do the following as it comes in handy to troubleshoot problems like this: Next to the Start button, click on the search icon (magnifying icon, type in cmd and then right-click on Command Prompt and choose Run as Administrator. Copy this and press the Enter key. Works in Windows 7 and 10.
net user administrator /active:yes
After a few restarts I was able to log in under my profile and found 4 TEMP folders.
The fix was messy so I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10. I formatted the drive and installed.
Example of problem at EaseUS TODO Backup
I have Windows 7 installed on my desktop computer and will stay with Windows 7......!
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posted on
02/14/2020 2:06:03 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
To: fireman15
#15 & 21 Microsoft Windows will get you my dear and your little dog too!!
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posted on
02/14/2020 2:08:58 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
To: dayglored
Any idea what the total of lost productivity to date is for Windows and other Microsoft products?
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posted on
02/14/2020 2:13:30 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
To: dayglored
Updated/ No problems here.
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posted on
02/14/2020 2:18:17 PM PST
by
MEG33
(Help Shorten FReepathons......DONATE MONTHLY)
To: Dacula
It is, but it’s saved my 2 2009 HP desktop computers on 7 or 8 occasions, w/ Win-7 Pro x64. So far, it’s caught everything thrown at them, and updates constantly.
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posted on
02/14/2020 2:26:12 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: dayglored
Microsoft pretty much hires H1B Indian trash exclusively. Think about it. Shit coders, shit products.
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posted on
02/14/2020 4:18:41 PM PST
by
Starcitizen
(American. No hypenation necessary. Send the H1B and H4EAD slime home. American jobs for Americans)
To: 1Old Pro
I just make sure to back up my data.
I don’t care about the platform, when it stops working right if a good cleaning won’t fix it, I buy a new one.
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posted on
02/14/2020 5:43:17 PM PST
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: hsmomx3
>
Talk about stressing out! Had to restart four times in order for everything to show up and ever since then have had no issues. And just think, Microsoft doesn't charge you extra for the adrenaline rush!
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posted on
02/14/2020 6:43:22 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: Swordmaker
Hi Swordmaker!
> Any idea what the total of lost productivity to date is for Windows and other Microsoft products?
No idea. But it's gotta be in the high billions. Scores of hours, per user, per year, times say 500,000,000 users, at what rate per user-hour, for how many years?
My head hurts.
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posted on
02/14/2020 6:46:02 PM PST
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
When I stumble upon a computer issue I can’t figure out on my own, my head spins and spins and I have a headache for hours after such an event.
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posted on
02/14/2020 7:51:31 PM PST
by
hsmomx3
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