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Re: [PLUG] Microsoftian Encephalitis & failure to WindowsUpdate
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JP Vossen wrote:
>> Microsoftian Encephalitis.
>
> Yup, AKA Windows bitrot or cruft
normally, yes, but this was a more specific -itis. The actual install
wasn't old enough to have cruft-ed. At this point, it's probably just
personal. The box runs The Dude, the freeware graphical ping/snmp
monitoring app (highly recommended). It doesn't do much more than ping
all day. It's months old. I'd actually understand if it was a year old
and I ran all sorts of apps on it. This one just decided to develop a
very specifically weird inflammation of the registry (or something).
> configs, and the data all back in place. Whereas with Debian/Ubuntu you
> only ever install once, even for major upgrades... But you already know
> that. :-)
:)
but to multiple machines lately.
>
>> To add insult to injury, I had to find a fix because Win Updates
>> completely, persistently and repeatedly failed to function. Fortunately
>> a teammate put together a bat file to fix this as the others had
>> experienced it too.
>
> I've had that problem. Can you share the batch file/fix?
I have it at work. Hopefully I can remember this all the way to
tomorrow. It was about five registry commands.
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