Windows 10: Cumulate Update (KB3172985) Windows 10 version 1511 build 10586.494

Update - I left it about twenty mins and nothing changed. The only way I could turn it off was to do something I hate doing, hold down the power button until the computer shut off. I then restarted fearing the worst but it all booted up fine without drama. All seems back to normal, checked manually for Windows updates which it did and reported back within a few seconds system is up to date.

But this glitch has concerned me. Is the anniversary update out today on one of the inside rings? Might there be some background noise which meant something caused this to happen on my machine? Although I am not on any inside ring whatsoever could MS be pre downloading stuff relating. I'm a little worried that (a) this could happen again if I give the PC enough idle time (that's what happened earlier, initially all was good and went away and left the machine alone for ten mins whereupon I come back to find the modular worker service started) and (b) it now concerns me this drama will scupper the anniversary update/download on 2nd Aug when it happens

 

Ok thank you, interesting that it's not isolated case. I just posted again and did much the same as you although I didn't delete all the stuff in the download folder.

i do wonder if it's related in some way to the anniversary update. The whole drama spooked me - definetely not the sort of panic I needed just before heading out to work, I only turned it on to check a few emails!

 

Kind of difficult to decipher what MS is doing with all the changes and even though on the whole I don't get problems sometimes things do crop up that kind of makes one skip a heartbeat hoping it won't turn to a major drama which require to have an earlier image installed

 

Yep mine skipped a beat too. Windows 10 is certainly an unpredictable beast. I do have an image from a couple months back but don't really want to be messing with that. Not enough spare time to deal with things it throws up & restoring the work done since. Oh well, maybe it's just a temporary glitch in the matrix. This evening I'll switch it on and allow the PC some idle time to see if it crops up again, if it doesn't happen again I'll just try and put it to the back of mind. At least until Aug 2 and anniversary update day when I will hold my breath and cross every finger in the hope it goes in without drama.

i miss the days of the early computers such as my Commodore 64 and Amiga. Much simpler back then, no updates to worry about, no unpredictable behaviour!!!

 

Had MS Edge just stop working yesterday. First time on a very long time ... Coincidence after a WIN 10 update??? I think not .....

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I use Edge and have had no trouble not even after this update, so cant suggest what might of caused it

 

I cant access my online banking in Edge anymore, tried on 2 machines and just get a blank page

Still works fine in Chrome & IE

 

It runs really slow as I play games it freezes kind of the same reapetedly sound and can't exit or anything

 

My Edge stopped working yesterday too! I tried everything to get it working again and finally went to a system image from last Saturday, before this week's updates. Everything went back to normal and it then downloaded the updates again last night. So far everything is still working. Fingers crossed. *Smile

 

well I left machine idle a couple times tonight for about 25 mins each time and no return of the issue so think I got lucky. Although will check again after 24 hours have passed in case whatever happened triggers daily

 

I had no issues downloading nor installing the update. But after successfully installing the update my explorer.exe refuses to start. My OS language is Norwegian Win 10 Pro 64-bit. Latest updates installed before this weeks cumulative update. When trying to load explorer.exe the process shows up briefly, but nothing else happens, so I get no desktop. This also happens in safe mode. I have uninstalled the update, and everything was working fine again. Then I tried installing the update again from Windows Update, and the same thing happens again.

 

seems more issues than usual after this update. Nice QA testing there Microsoft. This is what is frustrating about the relentless pace of updates, systems that otherwise seem to be functioning well are at the mercy of them. In this respect Windows 10 is pretty unpredictable.

I think there is a tool where you can hide the update that you can downloaded. Maybe worth hiding it as I guess the update will try and download again otherwise. Hopefully the anniversary update in just under 3 weeks will bring better outcome. I don't think your missing anything by not having this update, I can't see that it brings anything to the table (that I can detect) other than grief

 

These are exactly my thoughts. Wish we had a Like button. *Smile

 

Overall, IMHO, the issue with the new wave of Windows, is the lack of proper exception/error handling.. I mean stuff like the old "Something happened"... or even an error code with a sublime "please ask MS support for help" message (like they know anything) ...and that has been since Windows 8! ....and Event log is a just a maze now with non-descriptive entries...

 

so what happened to the start new thread buttons on the forum pages? I can only add a post to an existing thread. the new thread button works fine on win 7 forum