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Saw this posted by DavidGman on Reddit. I’ll just drop it here and back away slowly….
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Nibbled To Death By Ducks, Great Lake Bunyip, lurks about, GreatAndPowerfulTech, wavy

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That would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pitiful. I must confess, though, I did snicker when I saw it.

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That showed up on two of our 1903 systems after KB4522016 was installed. Installing KB4524147 made it go away, but then of course one of the systems had print problems…

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This happens when you are too far out of date and missing servicing stack in order to get the latest cumulative update.

Nothing new or exciting

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Pretty sure this also happens if you install Windows 10, turn it off for a few months, then turn it back on in a no-networking environment.

The OS doesn’t need to check online to see if you’re out of date, after all.  It knows there will be new updates every month.

 

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It just means you are missing the “no update” updates.

And there are -0 (minus zero) of them.

Byte me!

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If this were not in earnest, I would say,

“Any comment would mar the supreme idiocy and simplicity of this moment.”

As it is not, and people are actually seeing this, all I can do is sigh. (With facepalm.)

Can you imagine: at an altitude of 50 miles, doing goodness knows what Mach, the engines cut out and the Astronaut sees this:

“Mission Control, we have a, er, ‘Something Happened.”

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(Remember when cars had actual gauges, and not the “check engine” light? I actually know a fellow who got the CEL, stopped the car, opened the hood and said, “Well, it looks OK to me….half of it could be missing and it would still look OK to me.”) Ah, the blessings of Technology…

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Nibbled To Death By Ducks wrote:

Remember when cars had actual gauges, and not the “check engine” light?

Meh. I also remember cars that didn’t have much in the way of engine lights, gauges or anything – you were supposed to know if it was OK by sound and feel. Compared to that, an OBD2 dongle is an improvement.

If only we had a similar generalized working diagnostic port in computers. (Yes, it’d have to be better protected than most cars’ OBD2 ports.) With operating system state information and log buffers as well…

(Yes, I know, brand-specific options at least for servers exist. With time-based licensing…)

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I wish they did too! Someday PC’s will display accurate diagnostic info, repair the issue if they can, and if they can’t, tell you so. (Dream on…)

I’m a bit of an old-gearhead (had about 19 cars in my life) …when I bought my current falling-apart 18-year old wonder, I was going to insist that they put oil pressure, system voltage, and transmission oil temp gauges in…but I got such a great deal on it I felt it would be pressing the issue; they looked mad enough already. (Zero down, fixed price, no interest for 60 months.)

But that IS a great idea…a “diagnostic port”.

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Another time this can happen is if for some reason, a Windows Update installed, but some system files were prevented from being properly updated during the restart phase or earlier. Sometimes the Update History will show that an update did not successfully install, but Windows Update refuses to try to reinstall it. This can be the fault of third party security programs, but it can have other causes as well. Belarc Advisor will also report that certain patches are not installed when MS Update reports they are installed and they appear in the Update History as successfully installed.  Same usual causes.

 

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