{"id":299116,"date":"2019-03-13T08:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=299116"},"modified":"2019-03-13T08:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:14:26","slug":"windows-10-will-automatically-uninstall-buggy-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/299116-windows-10-will-automatically-uninstall-buggy-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 will automatically uninstall buggy updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has added a function to Windows 10 which automatically uninstalls updates that cause conflicts with the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-au\/help\/4492307\/windows-10-why-were-recently-installed-updates-removed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>support document<\/strong><\/a> on the company&#8217;s website, Windows 10 will try to resolve issues with failed updates by uninstalling recent patches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"\">Windows automatically installs updates to keep your device secure and running at peak efficiency,&#8221; the support page states. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">&#8220;<\/span>Occasionally, these updates can fail due to incompatibility or issues in new software.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If a user experiences a startup failure due to incompatibility, they may receive a message upon recovery stating: &#8220;We removed some recently installed updates to recover your device from a startup failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said this action is only taken when all other automatic recovery attempts are unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>When this rollback occurs, Microsoft will also flag problematic Windows 10 updates and prevent them from installing automatically for the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/298818-windows-7-extended-support-microsoft-pricing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 7 extended support \u2013 Microsoft pricing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has added a function which automatically uninstalls updates that cause conflicts with the operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":174478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[57976,57978,57974,26970],"class_list":["post-299116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-buggy-updates","tag-support-page","tag-uninstallation","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299128,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299116\/revisions\/299128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}