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Nope

Clicking on check for updates also ‘helps’, after a bit of waiting the update process is shown again. It all feels quite shabby to me. Besides, after updating the print server crashed after logging in. Not much new here though, guess the world according to Microsoft is a printerless one. Oh well, last machines here slowly phasing out, already largely replaced by Mac’s en Linux systems.

Made the switch years ago, never looked back. Under the line, Apple isn’t more expensive than a higher end Windows laptop. Add extremely good service, an included native helpdesk etc. Microsoft Office is available for macOS, if that’s a thing. More native than that you won’t get it. Part of every Office 365-subscription.

Win 10 21h2 enterprise. One system showed an eventlog 6008, unexpected system shutdown, which in reality didn’t happen. Seems to be an error that happens sometimes with updates, according to Microsoft. No hard shutdown experienced for the rest, updates installed as expected without a hitch or extra restarts in between. So I think I’ll leave it as it is, not much else I can do. It all works as it should.

On another PC the print server didn’t start after the update and restart. Oh well, don’t print anything from that machine anyway. Both systems are basically backups anyway, not used for production anymore. Those days are over for good, too risky.

Didn’t notice it (much). Just keep in mind that after a large update, the indexing processes in the background will be working hard for some time. Think also about re-indexing photos etc. Probably this process takes (much) more time on phones with nearly no free storage space anymore. What I often do is power off my phone or tablet after an update has been done and power it on again. First to see if all is ok and if this basic function works.

in short: to me a busy device (whatever brand, desktop or mobile etc) being busy after an update isn’t weird. Check what Windows is doing after ‘only’ booting: the first 10 minutes it’s going nuts with all kinds of whatevers. After an update often longer.

Just wait a few hours or a day and keep a charger at hand. It will be ok then. Us users seem to be extremely spoiled…

Just found out it can be disabled on iPads (where it also clearly stated that it’s a beta feature). Don’t understand why they rolled it out like this. Will wait with installing this update for a week and see how it all goes…

Looks like Universal Control is still in Beta? So maybe better wait with updating I’d say. Or there must be a 100% sure way to disable this functionality…

Probably a glitch in the matrix, not going to lose any sleep over it…

All systems here (1909 enterprise license) got a weird undocumented KB5007114 pushed, in all cases failed to install. The regular cumulative update went fine. Weird. Looks like this specific update either doesn’t belong on 1909 or there is something not ok with it, whatever it’s supposed to do.

Cortana?

No problems with the refreshed interface. HOWEVER, I think there should be a simple option or theme to switch between old and new. The last few years, I notice that programmers of open source stuff suddenly feel almighty when the product they work on gets or got successful. It led to the idiotic interface of Ubuntu (luckily there is Mint), pushed user interfaces that some programmers think is perfect without even asking users what they think of it and so on. I think one of the characteristics of open source software is (was?) having respect for what users prefer, about giving options. But big open source projects don’t differ that much anymore from commercial projects nowadays…

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rontpxz81, Cybertooth, Ascaris

Very basic system, single EFI, single OS with basically only Office, Firefox, Thunderbird etc installed. That’s also why I don’t bother even anymore to waste my precious time to figure out Windows troubles anymore. Restoring an image takes about 10…15 minutes, much more efficient. In 99.9% the problem is solved then, this time also.

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Alex5723

Had this problem with one laptop in the JuNe round, never experienced anything like that before. Solved the problem by restoring an image made before updating. No time (and energy anymore) to figure out what went wrong this time…

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GoneToPlaid, Fred, rc primak

Precisely that was expectable. It will lead to a myriad of ‘adapted’ / ‘unlocked’ iso’s with side loaded malware. Windows 11 will be a heaven for cybercriminals. Mr. Microsoft from India looks forward to very busy and fruitful days ahead. The whole announcement, introduction and presentation of 11 was a total fiasco which you basically should hold off as long as possible. Now, that is the case with every Windows version but this time it’s really the time to wonder if you want to keep investing in Windows-capable hardware.

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rontpxz81

Also – besides the 65% really poor people – also in our western world we have a large percentage of people with low incomes. They have children that need a laptop or PC for school work. Many use old systems, often bought second hand. They don’t have the cash at hand to buy a new computer with every OS-fart that escapes from Microsoft. Many of these people chose Windows because of its long term hardware support. Now, they will not trust on that anymore and start looking for alternatives. That might be Linux on their old hardware and thus extend its life for 5…10 years. Or they go for a Chromebook, tablet etc. This shift was going on already at the home and educational markets, it will only speed up.

For people like you, it means you have only more ways to extend the life of any computer, this time not only beyond time but also beyond Windows. The same will happen in smaller businesses and the like.