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FWIW, regular updates are still working properly here, AND KB5034441 never rears its ugly head.

I finally used wushowhide to hide KB5034441. Windows 10 home. After using it, the many "failed to install" notifications disappeared from my update history. Hadn't expected that, but it's good. Now KB5034441 doesn't show up and slow the update process as it tries to install. Also good. Is it true that wushowhide only works if you're connected to the 'net when you run it? It seemed so here. But I didn't notice that in the instructions, maybe I overlooked it.

Thanks, Andavari.

Microsoft sent a fix which doesn't work for bitlocker which my OS (win 10 home) doesn't have. Apparently it is too big for the recovery partition which I DO have but don't know why. Now they seem to have pulled the update but this computer is still trying to get it. Now they have issued convoluted repair instructions which have failed for many users who are much tekkier that I am. I'm certainly not going to try CMD as administrator + reagent c + powershell + diskpart + wushowhide + Minitool + whatever. I maybe could, after all I can read, but I won't. IMHO, its 50/50 odds that they don't fix it. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water . . .

I can't imagine a million grandpas and grandmas going through all the fixit steps I see listed on other forums. Is microsoft going to fix this for us non-tekkies, you think?

Merry Christmas, and may God bless.

OK, so the day after that last post my Firefox load up was delayed by 2 seconds, maybe more . . . knew i shouldn't have mentioned it. lol

Thanks, Andavari. I noticed that but didn't have time to check it out, now I know. BTW, having that "suspend browser activity until . . ." box checked affects my load up of Firefox by much less than a second.

My 2 cents, in addition to what was said above. I use 2 office programs. Both do everything microsoft does, as far as I can tell. I don't use them in a work environment, but the files they create will open, modify, and save using microsoft software. Both are free. Both are well maintained. One is Apache OpenOffice, I have it installed but there is a portable version. Installer: https://www.openoffice.org/ Portable: https://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable The other is LibreOffice, I use the portable version running in a non bootable partition. Installer: https://www.libreoffice.org/ Portable: https://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable Maybe other members will comment?

Merry Christmas to all, and may God bless.

For 70 turbulent years she has shown us the definition of a lady, and the definition of courage and leadership. She was of the greatest generation.

fwiw, login worked ok here.

IMHO: Windows 11 will not be the problem, rather any computer manufacturers who sell out to microsoft will be. The guy on the video is factually accurate. The posts on here are factually accurate and I agree with the opinions expressed. But: . . . Most everybody is missing the big picture, that is to say, the trends. These are sort of identified in that video, but with little emphasis on why. IMHO, The trend is the big boys are trying to figure out some way to get more cash out of users by limiting the capabilities of their hardware. Just my opinion. I have no problem with an operating system being a "rental property". I have no problem with good software that comes with a price tag, or even a "rental" agreement. I have a BIG problem with my computer (meaning the physical apparatus on this table here), being constrained so that it will only run some pre-approved operating systems or softwares. Whether this is done by means of the TPM, the UEFI, or whatever, it is unacceptable. It's my computer, if I want to run Slitaz on it I will. All the alarmists & apologists have been shown wrong. Win xp runs very well here, as does win 8.1, as did win 7 until my hardware failed. Win 10 (the LAST windows, remember?) runs very well on the computer I'm on right now. All the hype about how dangerous those older OS's are has proven false here. And I am probably the least tekkie member of this forum. That said, I'm not at all hopeful that these trends can be stopped. Bummer. End rant. :-)

Same thing happening here. Glad to know it isn't a problem with my computer, keyboard, or some sort of arcane "man in the middle" attack requiring me to login twice and send my password to some hacker. . . . It isn't, is it?