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Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date 2026-01-02 20:13 +0000
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On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 07:56:49 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

> On 2026-01-02 01:47, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 18:11:33 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> You're not wrong about machines no longer updating. Every honest
>>> person who's used Windows 10 or 11 for a long period of time will
>>> confirm that every so often, you'll come across updates that either
>>> failed or refused to install. From that point on, unless you know the
>>> cumbersome way to fix it, it will refuse to install any subsequent
>>> updates.
>> 
>> When I had a machine on the Insiders program it got to that point. The
>> cumbersome way was a well trodden path for me but it didn't help.
> 
> I always (eventually) managed to get it to work, but the way to fix it
> is definitely not intuitive. Even experienced, power users would find
> the instruction difficult to follow, so I can imagine what kind of a
> nightmare this would have become for casual users.

You know you have a problem when you invoke the update troubleshooter and 
it crashes. 

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Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-01-01 20:09 +0000
  Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-01-01 18:11 -0500
    Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-02 06:47 +0000
      Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-01-02 07:56 -0500
        Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-02 20:13 +0000
          Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-01-02 15:30 -0500
            Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-01-03 00:26 +0000
            Re: Windows Is A Great OS -- If Your Time Is Worth Nothing rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-01-03 02:05 +0000

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