Cumulative updates January 2021

Question

This is a summary of the cumulative updates released on January 12th for all the supported consumer releases of Windows 10. 

1. Windows 10 version 2004 and version 20H2 - KB4598242, Build 19041.746 and 19042.746
2. Windows 10 versions 1909 - KB4598229, Build 18363.1316

UPDATED 1/12/21

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For information about Windows update terminology, see the article about the types of Windows updates and the monthly quality update types. To view other notes and messages, see the Windows 10, version 2004 update history home page.

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Windows 10 update history

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4529964/windows-10-update-history

Windows 10 release dashboard

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/status-windows-10-2004

Windows 10 message center

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-information/windows-message-center#407

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Answer 1

The previous update I made (forced to) a couple of days ago, broke my work computer, I've been trying for the past couple of days to make software that I use daily just launch, Blender for instance is just a zombie app on my computer, whenever I run it, it just hangs there in limbo, even end task in task manager doesn't work anymore, everything is extremely slow, I spent 3 minutes looking at the screen, copying a 504 KB file from a folder to another on the same drive!

This broken updates nonsense is been going on for a very long time, and it's wasting millions of people's time and causing damage and losses. Enough, stop forcing broken updates, do your jobs and test before you go around breaking people's computers.

Answer 2

Just got up to find m laptop has a blank screen on power up, and my main desktop computer is stuck on cleaning up updates

Answer 3

I tryed to update my laptop now i cant use it as there is a revevery error ??

Answer 4

Yet another update that breaks the built-in search operation.

This update Jan 12th 2021 - KB4598242 totally kills windows search so have had to uninstall it and block it from update.

Answer 5

In what way does it break the File Explorer search function. Just tried mine and it seems to work as before.

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