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Windows Update is a torture chamber for seldom-used PCs (www.theregister.com)
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[–] mystik@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I have encountered a windows update that refused to install with a mysterious error code. After searching through the logs, I discovered it was refusing to proceed because it found an installer for an old version of the Netware client (that wasn't installed) that it knew was incompatible, in a non-common directory (C:\PreviousHardDrive\Backups). It was searching the whole hard drive against a database of incompatible programs.