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• Barb Bowman reports preview NET kicks reboot

  Posted on February 3, 2021 at 08:57 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  .@WindowsUpdate why did this preview .NET update install automatically (and requires a reboot)?  – @SBSDiva pic.twitter.com/DOqieUVaKu

  — Barb Bowman 🌷 (@barbbowman) February 3, 2021

  Barb Bowman reports that on her 20H2 that she received the preview .NET update KB4598299 and it kicked a reboot.

  (In other news the OTHER C/D patches for 2004 and 2oH2 KB4598291 came out yesterday as well.

  Barb reports she’s seeing this on multiple PCs.  Are you?  I’m not yet on this one.  Remember don’t click on “check for updates”, merely just go view the windows update section.

  Windows 10, Windows Patches/Security .NET preview, KB 4598291, KB 4598299, Patch Lady Posts, Win10 20H2

• Is KB 4580980, the .NET update preview for 1903 and 1909, being installed even if you don’t “seek” for it?

  Posted on October 20, 2020 at 21:12 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  A distressing post from @Brockton:

  I’m running Win10 Home 1909 which was current with the October updates and currently updates are NOT paused.  I still have v2004 sitting in my update screen as an optional ‘download and install’.

  I just had a notification pop-up to restart my computer.  It turns out KB4580980 downloaded and installed without me checking for updates.  I figured with this being a preview it would be optional.  Note that when I system did it’s usual auto-check for updates it pushed the .NET preview without my permission.

  I know the thought was that if you un-pause updates it may perform a check and pull down the .NET preview … BUT my updates were not paused and it still auto-installed the .NET preview.  It was not optional like it used to be…

  it seemed to act like a standard ‘Patch Tuesday’ update that you’d typically pause and prepare for.  But I’m used to the preview patches showing as optional so I kept my updates un-paused not expecting this unless I manuall check for updates.  It seemed to get pushed through like the monthly standard updates that you get even if you don’t ‘seek’.

  Can you confirm? I’m not seeing it – but I’m paused.

  Windows Patches/Security .NET preview, KB 4580980