Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
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Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#2I've got to stop doing Windows Updates
Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#3I've got to stop doing Windows Updates
just delete the service entirely, same with defender
it's great
my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP
if it gets hacked: I simply don't care
Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#4I suppose that's one way to make Windows secure, keep it from running entirely.
Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#5I am glad that I don't need to use Windows anymore. When I did, the LTSC version (the one made for ATM and Kiosks) was the only one that was productivity-friendly.
Microsoft doesn't want to accept that no one cares about Windows, and the OS is the thing that gets you to the thing you want to do.
I saw 2 instances of people getting "updating windows" in their personal laptops when they tried to present something and lost everyone's time. I imagine this happens a lot of times every day. And now they are just breaking everyone's system by forcing updates as well.
Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#6I am glad that I don't need to use Windows anymore. When I did, the LTSC version (the one made for ATM and Kiosks) was the only one that was productivity-friendly. Microsoft doesn't want to accept that no one cares about Windows, and the OS is the thing that gets you to the thing you want to do. I saw 2 instances of people getting "updating windows" in their personal laptops when they tried to present something and l…
LTSC is what mainstream Windows should be. It doesn't load up a bunch of apps you don't ask for or throw ads in your face all the time. Solid, dependable, reliable, and stable.
Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#7I switched to Macs almost completely for personal and devlopment use about 13 or 14 years ago. However, last year I started a 3d printing side hustle, and got an HP laptop for running the print studio since the amount of hardware I could get for less than $1000 was hard to ignore. However, things like this, and other weird issues (my fonts have gone all wonky a couple of times after random updates) make me want to switch it over to a Linux distro (even though the software support for what I need is much better in the Windows world, and in some cases, better than even on the Mac)
Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#8I am glad that I don't need to use Windows anymore. When I did, the LTSC version (the one made for ATM and Kiosks) was the only one that was productivity-friendly. Microsoft doesn't want to accept that no one cares about Windows, and the OS is the thing that gets you to the thing you want to do. I saw 2 instances of people getting "updating windows" in their personal laptops when they tried to present something and l…
If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.
Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#9I've got to stop doing Windows Updates
just delete the service entirely, same with defender it's great my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP if it gets hacked: I simply don't care
You should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem
Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
just delete the service entirely, same with defender it's great my only remaining windows PC is for games, and it's on its own vlan with its own external IP if it gets hacked: I simply don't care
You should care because once your PC is part of a bot network, it’s part of the problem
it's running Microslop Windows, so it's born compromised
it's an OS with constant built-in ads and spyware
it would have been considered malware in the 2000s