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home :: software :: windows8grumble
Sat, 15 Dec 2012Grumble grumble grumble.
:-(
I am irritated at Windows 8.
Last night, my PC informed me that it would reboot in 15 minutes to install a Windows update.
That irritated me: my PC should not decide when it's going to reboot... I could be in the middle of something important and need to postpone rebooting for an hour or two. Previous versions of Windows have always given me the option to postpone the reboot.
So, I shut down the PC and went to sleep.
This morning, I rebooted the PC and went into the desktop... Boom! "Skype has stopped working".
Cannot get skype to work. Restarted it, failed again.
Argh. It's been ages since a Windows Update has broken my machine (actually, I can't remember when that last happened).
Reinstalling skype did not resolve the issue.
Then Internet Explorer also stopped working. Not a huge issue as I use Firefox most of the time, but still...
Hunted around for a solution and in the end fixed it by going to Windows Update and installing the latest Important fix (KB2779768).
So, now looking at the update history, it seems like KB2771431 is the one that broke skype, and KB2779768 fixed it.
Still, I lost an hour hunting around for a problem that shouldn't have occured. Last thing you want at 6 AM on a Saturday morning is to be hunting around to find why your PC is not starting up gracefully.
As I've said: Grumble Grumble Grumble.
P.S. I also dislike how some New UI (Metro) applications display adverts on my PC. Actually, that has turned me off completely from New UI applications, and now I avoid them for that reason.
/software | Posted at 01:59 | permanent link