August updates for Windows 8.1

zep516

12 years ago

FYI

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2014/08/05/august-updates-for-windows-8-1-and-windows-server-2012-r2/

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Elmer J Fudd
12 years ago
Many press accounts over the last few months have suggested that Microsoft realizes it blew it with Windows 8 and 8.1. The plan is to make a beeline to Windows 9 (which is expected to reinstate the familiar Start Menu UI). Monthly updates for Win 8 in the meantime will be "trivial" (by some accounts). A free or inexpensive upgrade path to Win 9 for Win 7 + 8 users is expected.
grandms
12 years ago
I'd love to get a free, or even reduced, upgrade for my Win 7 computer. I just wasn't ready for 8, but now I think I can tackle 9.
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Hey everyone! Long time and no post....sorry too busy starting nursing school. It sounds like everyone is getting great packages. Well I thought I would log on and drop a hint for my partner. I have a small hosta bed on my north side of my house and it is in total shade. They grow like crazy and I noticed it looks a little blah. I think it might be because I only have one type of hosta. Green with white edges. Sooooo....If my person would like to send me some different ones in blue-green and yellowish leaves or anything else that would grow in total shade that would be great! My campus has wi-fi so hopefully when I am really bored in class I can log on here and see what is happening. So everyone getting excited for bulb planting season? I know I am last year I planted 1000+ bulbs. I wonder how many I will get in the ground this year? With school and work I hope to add a few more. I know I am going to add more snow crocus to my lawn. I love seeing them pop through the grass in the spring. Little packets of white yellow and purple. They are the usually the first blooms I get this far north. Well I suppose I should get back to my homework!
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mikie_gw
12 years ago
Seems august updates were a bad idea.

Here is a link that might be useful: Known issues & mitigations
DA_Mccoy
12 years ago
Mikie,

I've been following this for a few days. Issue 3 along with its mitigation caused me to remove the one update, KB2982791, I had on my W8.1 system even though there were no concerns.

DA
mikie_gw
12 years ago
I removed the first item in the list, restarted and instantly was given a automatic update. Then a while later I only could find the 3rd item in the list, uninstalled it and after restart was offered some more automatic updates.

I didn't have any open source fonts.. so didn't need to mess around with their regedit procedure.

Main reason I removed them was my boot added another 10 seconds or so before reaching the win81. login screen. Thought maybe was something there with those .. but still same after uninstalling them. Might still linger in Prefetch, and windows wonders where they are :)

Here is a link that might be useful:
anne_ct
11 years ago
This MS August update disaster is causing issues with Win 7.1, too. I had to do some pretty fancy footwork to get Win Updates to work after deleting 2982791. I finally succeeded by accessing it through "Restore Hidden Updates"...allowing a hidden update to load. Then, MS in its infinite wisdom...automatically installed the replacement for 2982791. I later uninstalled 2970228 and went through the whole ugly procedure again...only this time I had to remove the hidden update that I'd previously installed. Don't ask! GRRRRRR MS finally installed 2993651 from the restore page and life has been back to normal ever since.

I should add that no repair tool worked trying to get Win Updates to work/repair itself. The repair tool ran and reported the Update tool was repaired. It wasn't. And I went round and round with that issue for a while until I just finally worked every trick I could think of with the Restore Hidden Updates temporarily repairing the problem. Currently...peace reigns!

It's going to be very interesting to see what September brings.

Anne

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