Why can't the updates work without causing BSOD?

Question

The March rollup for windows 10 22H2 on my main work machine started causing blue screens right after the update. Even worse, it seems at some time windows turned off my protection so there were no restore points. To make matters worse something went wrong with my restore and I had to remove my ssd card and restore it from another machine. If the update can't be reliable, how about a 'remove last update' option?

I have 5 windows 10 machines and 2nd Tuesday is a royal pain. I have 12 Linux machines that I update every week and I can automate the updates and they never cause issues. I remember when window NT came out and Microsoft said it wouldn't have to reboot on updates.. Hoho see how that worked out. Come on Microsoft you've been around long enough to figure this out by now.

Joe

Answer 1

I'm sorry you're experiencing this. Please report this in the Feedback Hub in Start Menu. While they won't see it here, Microsoft developers DO read feedback from customers that comes in via the Feedback Hub.

System Restore is your first line of defense if Windows ever malfunctions as it can run (even from WinRE Repair Mode or recovery media) to get you back before a problem started like a time machine. It should always be turned on C drive with as much disk space as you can afford (5-15%) configured. Here's how to check and when necessary how to run System Restore: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-system-r...

Let me know if I can help further. I'll stay subscribed to this thread in case you need anything else, until the System locks it in a few months.

Answer 2

See above. At some time, windows decided to turn protection off....so no restore points. Install was original from Dell. Bootable media wouldn't boot.

I have it back up by removing the ssd and restoring last month's image with another computer. Just really mad that the update for March damaged my drivers. Dumps called out drivers for Cura and USA19 and others, so not a drivers problem, it was a Microsoft caused damage. This is what bad programming looks like. (I had an MCSE for windowNT and was a programmer for aviation. If I programmed bad the plane may crash)

Answer 3

Hello Joe. I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

If an Update causes a problem you can System Restore to a point before it or Uninstall it in Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Installed Updates.

If it won't uninstall or causes WIndows to not start, you can also uninstall Updates from a button in WinRE Repair Mode or bootable media here:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2294-boot-a...

Then immediately install Hide Updates tool to catch and block the Update before it installs again: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/8280-hide-s...

All ways to control Windows Updates are also here:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/faq-how-to-manage...

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-con...

What I've found handling thousands of these cases is that Updates cause issues with poor quality installs. We know this for sure because no one who does the gold standard Clean Install in this link: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki... ever comes back with further problems that I have seen.

It sounds like you may be in an organization. In this case for further help please ask at our sister forums for IT Professionals, Q&A forums here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/answers/index.....

Microsoft Community is strictly an end-consumer forum. Solutions we give here will conflict with the organization''s Group Policy which we do not use in consumer forums at all.

There are also equally good (and sometimes busier) 3rd party IT Pro forums here:

https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/

https://www.spiceworks.com/

I hope it helps.

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