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Thanks.

Mod Note: Please use the THANKS button opposed to posting thanks. (I’ve let this slide as you are new and as a reminder to others)

What a pain in the butt. After running wushowhide, the error was gone, but Win still wanted to run other updates. I tried to run the update, but would just end up at the Windows Login Screen with no actual reboot. I figured the only way around this was to shutdown, but it wouldn’t allow me to do that either, again just going back to the Login screen. Finally, I tried shutting down from the login screen. That worked! And then when I turned the computer back on and went to the Windows Update, it all worked normally (with the offending patch still hidden).

As bad as MS is at all of this stuff, I am still surprised that part of the instructions for a general windows update are to modify the partitions. That’s just insanity. 90% of their users don’t have a clue or don’t have a large enough IT team to do this. Whoever rationalize this as a possible solution should be fired ( I was going to say shot, but I’m trying to be kinder and gentler in 2024).

I’ve been writing Google Apps Script code lately and have been bouncing between Bard and ChatGPT for support. I generally have found that ChatGPT does a better job at solving my issues. At first I thought that Google should be better because it’s their code. Then I remembered that I’ve been living in the MS world for 40+ years and I always get better results when I go outside MS for my answers. 🙂 Nice article. Thanks. – Another Bruce