Seven weeks later...

<John McEnroe scream> I can’t BELIEVE this! </John McEnroe scream>

M$ have done it again!

I had Windows Update KB3035583 marked as “hidden.” So, I was safe, wasn’t I? That update wouldn’t come up when I searched for Windows Updates, would it? I mean, I didn’t have to worry about installing any new updates, right? Wrong. Two new updates installed, and there was the old “Get Windows 10” icon back on the taskbar. I’d just installed KB3035583 all over again. :-(

So, surely I must have made a mistake? I must have somehow unhidden that update without realising it, right? Wrong again. Second computer, no possibility of said accident, yet there it is again, unhidden, marked as “important,” and billed as follows:

Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems (KB3035583)
Install this update to resolve issues in Windows....
Published 1/10/2015

No message to say, “This update has been unhidden because...” No indication that it’s an old update. No mention of Windows 10. Cue John McEnroe...

OK, so after uninstalling and hiding it all over again, I now have a red post-it note to remind me of the KB number. And my “Restore hidden updates” screen now lists KB3035583 twice (in identical listings, AFAICT).

M$ are persistent, I’ll give them that.

Update: Thanks, Anonymous Monk, I wasn’t aware of AutoPatcher, it looks useful!

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^2: OT: Sigh ... Windows 10 by Athanasius
in thread OT: Sigh ... Windows 10 by roboticus

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