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rzemanfl

(30,375 posts) Sat Feb 13, 2021, 05:30 PM Feb 2021

Right after that travesty of a vote my laptop locked up. [View all]

I restarted it and got a harrowing, unannounced, unforeseen Windows 10 update that took 55 minutes to install! Just because this day wasn't bad enough, I guess. Has anyone else had this happen?

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Right after that travesty of a vote my laptop locked up. [View all] rzemanfl Feb 2021 OP

Not this particular time, not this particular OS Xipe Totec Feb 2021 #1

Yes, this weeks update was onerous BBG Feb 2021 #2

Indeed. If I had gotten any warning I would not have been as upset as I was. rzemanfl Feb 2021 #5

Yes, yesterday. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 #3

Thank you. I printed 19 pages of instructions on what to do rzemanfl Feb 2021 #4

Interesting....no, mine seemed to execute pretty much without my input. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 #11

I did a Windows update yesterday as well True Dough Feb 2021 #6

It may have been because I had things stuck and running when I had to restart. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2021 #8

I should add that when it finally restarted it took me back to MSNBC and Gmail. rzemanfl Feb 2021 #10

Don't think you have to do that.... OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 #12

Now that I have notifications back on (don't know how they were turned off) rzemanfl Feb 2021 #13

I got the notification but refused. lpbk2713 Feb 2021 #7

Thank you! I just noticed notifications were off. I swear I didn't do that. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2021 #9