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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11/17/20

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

So am Currently Updating the newest update but it keeps running into a issue.It will start up the update then head straight into fixing issue, " Uninstall Virtual Box". I have looked for this app in program and features but nothing comes up so i do not know how to uninstall this.

Answer 2

They don't care. Period. I think this "update" was designed to purposely destroy devices to force users to buy replacement devices they otherwise did not need or could not afford to increase profit margins during the pandemic.

Answer 3

Absolutely agreed. This is a mich more widespread issue than Microsoft is leading everyone to believe. Start flooding Microsoft's social media with the issues you've faced and its less than helpful customer service response. If thousands of people are experiencing update related issues and are being forced to pay for refurbished replacement devices, Microsoft is making bank, and this type of predatory business practice is a PR nightmare when social media turns against a company.

Answer 4

I do wish that updates that are screwing everybody's computers were removed as soon as you realise rather than let the rest of the world continue to blunder through and fu####g up their own computers. 

 I'm not too computer savvy and probably the only way I'm going to fix this non responsive pc is to do a reinstall of my original setup from my back up discs. 

Thanks for nothing! 

Why would they stop? Microsoft are aware that their updates ignore individual user tweaks and reset many things to their own default. That in itself doesn't usually stop a computer working, but it does take me - and I surmise millions of other customers - hours of work to try to restore what they've broken. I'm just interested to know whether they do it because they're inept or just don't care about their customers.

Answer 5

Many of the comments here refer to this update having broken things for them, as usual. So far, I've not found anything actually broken. I expect I have those joys to come, along with new "features" which in reality will be more rubbish foisted on us because some techie thought it was very clever, and we'll have to spend ages figuring out how to remove or hide. I expect to also find features that I do find useful have been removed, or "improved" so that they're no longer worth bothering with (e.g. replacing "Snip", a very useful SIMPLE little app, with "Snip & Sketch", an overblown "upgrade" packed full of features and options I'll never ever use, and making the one thing I do want to do much more long winded).

I HAVE found that, as usual, Microsoft has ignored all of my carefully thought out tweaks to suit my needs and reinstated unwanted libraries and folders, messed around with my [Start] menu, etc. These changes took an inordinately large amount of effort because MS makes it unnecessarily hard to do.

So I would be interested to know, is this lack of any consideration because:

(1) Microsoft developers are not skilled enough to be able to capture a user's settings and preferences, and maintain/restore them during an upgrade, something which virtually every other software provider I use seems to have absolutely no problem doing?

(2) Microsoft care so little about their customers as individuals that they think it's OK to save a few developer hours at the expense of thousands of cumulative user hours restoring what their upgrades have destroyed?

(3) Microsoft believe they know better than their customers how their customers' computers should be set up and used?

If this is the wrong place to ask this question, I'd be pleased if someone could point me to the right one.

[PS: Please note that this is a repost, as the original has mysteriously disappeared without a response to my question]