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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 21:29:17 -0400
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On Sun, 4/6/2025 5:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Even the Dimdows Update mechanism -- you know, the one that
> automatically puts stuff on your machine that you don’t want -- is
> another major source of things that can go wrong. This article
> <https://www.computerworld.com/article/1613310/how-to-troubleshoot-and-reset-windows-update.html>
> suggests some things to try if the updater gives trouble (how would
> you tell?). And boy, don’t those suggestions get progressively
> nuttier.
> 
> The final one (or at least, the final thing to try before giving up
> and taking your machine to someone who knows what they’re doing), a
> “complete reset”, involves downloading and running some random batch
> file off the Internet, which does all kinds of things to your system
> that you don’t really want to know about, just trust the folks who
> wrote the script, OK?
> 

Well, the next time you have a problem, drop by, and we'll
tell you what to do.

   Paul