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.May 10, 2022—KB5013942 (OS Builds 19042.1706, 19043.1706, and 19044.1706) (microsoft.com)
On my system after installing this update, logging in gives a black screen and after a while you get to see the desktop. But then things don’t appear to work properly e.g. right click the task bar to start task manager and nothing happens.
You can start control panel and uninstall the update. After doing that things appeared to return to normal.
@RayG –
You were on the right track to see what was taking up so much of your processor’s time (and the hard drive’s or ssd’s time).
You just needed to exercise some more patience. When I have that happen on computers at work, I dig into the Task Manager and use the Processes tab to see what’s taking up so much of the processor’s time and what’s taking up so many of the hard drive’s revolutions (yep, they still put spinners in many computers). That then gives me a picture of what to do next, i.e. be patient or call the IT folks to come unclutter the thing.
So, if you somehow actually do have the time, and would like to see just what was going on to better give folks here a heads up, feel free to attempting a reinstall of the monthly update, but this time, have a little more patience while waiting for Task Manager to come up, and a bit more for it to display its info.
One thing that comes to my mind, based upon my own experience over the last decade or so with WU, is that sometimes WU has to do a bunch of housekeeping after rebooting (and sometimes before rebooting as well), and that can occasionally be a resource hog. Once its done, though, things are immediately back to normal.
One other thing that I’ve also seen is exactly what Susan describes in her post above, the installation of a .net patch can also take a while with its own processes mired in post-installation housekeeping of their own. With the .net patches, I’ve seen patches that have a ton of both pre and post reboot housekeeping on Windows 7, but for the most part on Windows 10, the housekeeping has all been pre-reboot.
If these housekeeping routines (both the .net’s and the monthly patch’s) aren’t given enough time to finish, they can create problems with the file structure down the road a bit in the form of file corruption.
Ok did a complete clean-up of the system Dism, sfc disk clean-up, Rebooted several times during that process. So, in the end no issues and WU was paused while I did all this. I took a backup and then let WU loose attached image shows what updates were installed:
Same as before black screen CTRL-ALT-DEL the only way to get task manager running CPU use 1% after about 5 minutes desktop appears but the taskbar is still not responding.
The solution will have something to do with Explorer. I found this improved things if I killed it off and restarted it via task manager. Happens for all users. So far not much further forward on what or why.
No improvement even after letting things run for 45 mins – reboot and its the same old thing but now either a black screen or a taskbar that does not work and you cannot start anything at all.
I’ve got a client with Dell Optiplex 3050’s where this update and two others installed yesterday. Since then, the time on one machine went bonkers, advancing 40 minutes or so, the mouse drifted on its own, and USB3.0 powered hubs/cables which used to work with their dental sensors, no longer are recognized, and neither is the dental sensor when inserted directly. Install of latest Dell drivers did nothing to help. Disabling all the power management features in USB also did nothing. Uninstalling the updates now, starting with KB5013942, but it’s taking it’s damn time.
Are you using any third party menu software? What non MS software that would interact with the file explorer? During this time what is going on in Task manager? Any app hogging resources?
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