Original Windows 10 October Update File Deletion Explained
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What mechanism did it use to delete the folders? What happened to 'folder not empty, can't delete' errors?
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Whatever happened to "make a backup before you change anything"? Of course, if the update sneaks up on you then you don't get to make that backup. Incidentally, what's with all the garbage that gets pushed out with all these updates. For the record, I don't have a 3-D printer. I don't use virtual reality, I'm having enough trouble with real reality. I don't like 3-D paint. It's horrible. I no longer use Skype since MS broke it. The Mail app is useless to me. Cortana seems to be deaf in my part of the world. And so on. All this stuff gets re-installed whenever I try to remove it. Just to please the sales department I guess.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Whatever happened to "make a backup before you change anything"? Of course, if the update sneaks up on you then you don't get to make that backup. Incidentally, what's with all the garbage that gets pushed out with all these updates. For the record, I don't have a 3-D printer. I don't use virtual reality, I'm having enough trouble with real reality. I don't like 3-D paint. It's horrible. I no longer use Skype since MS broke it. The Mail app is useless to me. Cortana seems to be deaf in my part of the world. And so on. All this stuff gets re-installed whenever I try to remove it. Just to please the sales department I guess.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
Herbie Mountjoy wrote:
All this stuff gets re-installed whenever I try to remove it.
Have a look at Windows 10 Decrapifier, 1803/1809 - Script Center - Spiceworks[^]. If you read the notes/instructions you are meant to run this during the installation of Windows to do it right. If you run it it won't affect the current logged in user but, and I mean but, it might work for you if you enable and login as the Builtin Administrator, then login as yourself and disable Administrator again. Haven't had time to play with this myself yet so can't vouch for it.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I just read the following explanation of why the original Windows 10 October update (which was withdrawn) deleted files (potentially lots of them)… Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data | Ars Technica[^] BEGIN RANT Wow! This is what happens when a thoughtless design and poor QA combine to produce devastating consequences. MS seems to continually get worse at updates. I am already depressingly familiar with the annoyance of "fixing" broken updates. Now, apparently, I have to worry about significant data loss as well. I truly hope MS finally learns a long overdue lesson. They have to get back to basics. Their update mechanism is desperately in need of a re-design. It's flaky, unstable, and now (IMHO) among the worst in the industry. Also, they have to place more value on QA. This was not an edge case and should have been caught (quite easily) before release. Nowadays, they seem to use their customers as a QA department. END RANT
Under no circumstances I will leave updates enabled on my computer. I update when I need to. That holds true for Linux distributions too - I had several systems killed by some package update.
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Herbie Mountjoy wrote:
All this stuff gets re-installed whenever I try to remove it.
Have a look at Windows 10 Decrapifier, 1803/1809 - Script Center - Spiceworks[^]. If you read the notes/instructions you are meant to run this during the installation of Windows to do it right. If you run it it won't affect the current logged in user but, and I mean but, it might work for you if you enable and login as the Builtin Administrator, then login as yourself and disable Administrator again. Haven't had time to play with this myself yet so can't vouch for it.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Thanks Michael. I will look at this.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.