Windows 10: Microsoft Windows 10 Update screwed up my Icons AGAIN!!!!

A recent Windows 10 update changed all my custom Chrome shortcut icons to a blue ball? If I try to make any changes they all revert back to the ball. I am the onle person who uses this computer and have full Admin Rights to make any change, but I have tried all the reported fixes and nothing works. I am tired of this MS BS and want my Icons fixed!! Why do I have to jump through hoops to fix my PC when it was Microsoft who screwed it up? Wake up MicroSoft...Fix my computer....There is no reason to mess with my Chrome Icons just because I don't care to use Microsoft's Explorer. I am about to dump Microsoft, windows and my PC's and switch over to Android tablet or a Chrome Book.

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Microsoft Botches Up UEFI Support for Windows 7 on ASUS Motherboards



Microsoft suggests updating to Windows 10 to patch Windows 7

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• Chris Merriman
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• 05 May 2016

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MICROSOFT HAS confirmed a potentially lappy-borking problem that it won't be fixing, because Windows 7.

Woody Leonhard, the respected Windows columnist, points to a problem involving Asus motherboards, which also appear rebadged in a variety of other manufacturers' machines, and the activation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 7 in a patch KB3133977.

Short version: install update, welcome to Borksville, population you.

Both Asus and Microsoft acknowledged the problem. Microsoft entitled the article "BitLocker can't encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2", but we prefer to just call it "Trevor for brevity."

The firm's advice was that it's an optional update, leave well alone, you'll be fine, or alternatively turn secure boot off.

Then Microsoft did a silly, silly thing.

It moved the update from 'optional' to 'recommended' and anyone who reads this site regularly will know what happens when Microsoft does this. That's right boys and girls - it makes it automatically install, unless you've specifically told your machine not to.

So now, if you have one of the affected motherboard and you keep your security updates automatic like wot Microsoft recommends, then your machine will stop working properly.

We should add it's not permanently bricked, but it will take some mucking about in the BIOS to fix and that's a pain even for an experienced computer user.

Microsoft has, by offering a workaround, suggested heavily that it won't be fixing the problem, though we have asked the question, so expect a response in about a fortnight.

But the real kicker is this piece of advice: "Note The Secure Boot feature is supported in Windows 10. To learn more about the security advantages of this feature and about the upgrade path from Windows 7 to Windows 10, go to the following Windows website"

Holy toledo, this company really knows how to rub people up the wrong way.

After all - if the advice is to manually avoid the update or move to a version of the operating system where there's virtually no control over updates, then Microsoft is dealing in massive contradictions.

A more cynical site would suggest that it's yet another example of Microsoft running Windows 7 into the ground and adding built in obsolescence to encourage quicker updates. But we're not that sort of site.

Its the patching to force secure boot that is the problem win 7 does not support secure boot
hence it borks systems and well microsofts answer is Cactus >your Asshole > insert

from the inquirer

 

microsoft updates screwed up my computer

Today 10/28/2016 Windows 10 Forced Updates just screwed up my computer again. This is three times now in recent history with the exact same problems as a result. What Microsoft has done to me again is forced an exaggerated panoramic view on every component
within Windows, so that everything from all my desktop shortcuts to programs and video windows all now have extended panoramic width added to them, screwing everything up. So today I tried to roll Windows back to a previous restore point which it will not
allow, nor will it allow me to successfully uninstall the new updates. So once again I am stuck with a screwed up computer.

I am going to go out today to an Apple Store, and buy a new computer as I will never again buy or own a Windows Based Computer ever again, even if my life depended upon it. Death before another Microsoft product ever again. At this point I would add a whole
host of expletives telling Microsoft what they can go do with themselves, if they simply would not use that as an excuse to delete my post.

 

Windows Update does it again: Disappearing Desktop Icons

Icons disappeared after the update, i know it was one of te 80+ updates

The link i found on msdn is to audit the events that accounts do and i will hunt down which process does it. But they say this issue happens on monday, YES today is thursday and I was only logged in yesterday in morning for a short time and not again until today.

Damn you microsoft.

EDIT: I've set up the auditing for deleting and when it happens again it will trace what did it, need to wait a week or so.