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ISSUE 21.39.1 • 2024-09-24 By Susan Bradley In the August updates, Microsoft introduced a bug that impacted Windows users who dual-booted into Windows
[See the full post at: MS-DEFCON 4: Dual-boot computers now safe to patch]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Apologies, republished all four sheets. Try them now?
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
If you use Group Policy setting of “2” notify download/install, you should never use Pause. The GP setting will keep the updates from downloading. If you use Pause, Windows can not search for updates. And when you Resume, whatever is out there will download/install ignoring the “2” setting.
No, I had publishing issues last night converting the excel sheets, try it again now.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Just for test I downloaded Windows 11 ‘Media Creation Tool’ and downloaded Windows 11 23H2 ISO.
No problems.
Update:
The problem with the “banned from using this service” error message when using Susan’s direct ISO download link was solved by changing browsers from Chrome to Firefox. Simple as that!
The earlier issue with using the Media Creation Tool option to download the ISO to a flash drive resulted from using a FAT32 flash drive to download a 6 gb file. Turns out, ya can’t do that! <grin> Reformatted to NTFS and problem solved. Yes, definately operator error!
Again thanks for your help.
Will this registry key still opt me out of the latest SBAT patch – and future patches?
Only if MS continue to honour the reg setting – not guaranteed.
But you will hear it here if anything changes…
cheers, Paul
Susan, I don’t understand why you are recommending that people uninstall the August updates and then install the September updates? Everything I’ve read about this says that the “bug” was that the update was not detecting certain dual-boot setups and then going ahead and updating our BIOS with its black list. Everything has also said that uninstalling the update would not fix this issue, because the issue is that Microsoft thought it was reasonable to go ahead and just modify our firmware without a reasonable warning. As I read it now, the only thing “fixed” in the September updates is that the new updates will now properly detect dual-boot systems and NOT nuke your shim SBAT? But if the damage was already done, uninstalling is not going to fix anything or prevent anything in the future. Am I not understanding this correctly?
Also, their “workaround” isn’t a solution for people like me that don’t actually dual-boot, but boot off a linix usb for a backup solution. There’s no way to enter that convoluted sequence of command lines from this usb boot. With no way to undo this fiasco, I was forced to purchase an unnecessary update to my backup software just to get the latest shim. (My version was only 9 months old). This has been in my top 5 most infuriating things M$ has done. And I go back to the DOS days.
I haven’t seen anyone comment on having done a regular, non duel-boot related update without issue so I’ll wait till next weekend to see if folks are are aren’t having problems.
Start reading at this post in the “Sept 2024 updates are on us” thread and continue reading the rest of the posts in that thread. All the posts were made between 9/11/24 and 9/16/24, before Susan lowered the MS-DEFCON level for the month to 4, where it currently sits.
I hope this helps you decide.
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