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Yet another reason why you should avoid Automatic Update – KB 4039396
Posted on August 29, 2017 at 14:53 CDT by woody • Comment in the ForumsIf you’re running Win10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft released a fix yesterday that’ll clean everything up — as long as you didn’t install the original cumulative update, which was released on August 8.
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