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Yet another bandaid on top of all the other bandaids stuck on the
ever-shakier house of cards that is Microsoft Windows <https://www.theverge.com/news/930303/windows-update-automatic-driver-rollback-feature>.

WhatrCOs the bet that Microsoft will at some point bring out an update
that manages to break this rollback feature? (Entirely inadvertently,
of course.)

Say ... sometime in the next 12 months?
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On 2026-05-14 7:33 p.m., Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

Yet another bandaid on top of all the other bandaids stuck on the ever-shakier house of cards that is Microsoft Windows <https://www.theverge.com/news/930303/windows-update-automatic-driver-rollback-feature>.

WhatrCOs the bet that Microsoft will at some point bring out an update
that manages to break this rollback feature? (Entirely inadvertently,
of course.)

Say ... sometime in the next 12 months?

Windows usually does a pretty good job with driver updates, so I don't
usually worry when the operating system offers me one. This rollback
option already existed in the form of rollback within the Device
Manager, but it's nice of Microsoft to make it more accessible to users
who aren't aware of its existence.
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disabled. And the poor. Look at the "Bible Belt" where all of these
things and so much more are worse. We are in end-stage capitalized
fueled by right wing extremist Christians. Muslims do not do nearly the
harm." - Sodomite Snit Brock McNuggets Michael Glasser, lying shamelessly.
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On Thu, 14 May 2026 23:33:35 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence DoOliveiro wrote:

Yet another bandaid on top of all the other bandaids stuck on the ever-shakier house of cards that is Microsoft Windows <https://www.theverge.com/news/930303/windows-update-automatic-driver-rollback-feature>.

Whatos the bet that Microsoft will at some point bring out an update
that manages to break this rollback feature? (Entirely inadvertently,
of course.)

Say ... sometime in the next 12 months?

It'd be pointless if it doesn't remember rolled back bad updates and
manually uninstalled updates, since they'll will be redownloaded and
reapplied again.
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On 2026-05-15 9:22 a.m., JJ wrote:

On Thu, 14 May 2026 23:33:35 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

Yet another bandaid on top of all the other bandaids stuck on the
ever-shakier house of cards that is Microsoft Windows
<https://www.theverge.com/news/930303/windows-update-automatic-driver-rollback-feature>.

WhatrCOs the bet that Microsoft will at some point bring out an update
that manages to break this rollback feature? (Entirely inadvertently,
of course.)

Say ... sometime in the next 12 months?

It'd be pointless if it doesn't remember rolled back bad updates and
manually uninstalled updates, since they'll will be redownloaded and reapplied again.

I think that a good chunk of _why_ these driver updates fail has to do
with the driver file itself being or becoming corrupted, with the
filesystem not realizing that it is. You would think that the operating
system would download a proper, working version of the driver and
overwrite the corrupted one, but it seems that it often reapplies the
broken one instead.
--
CrudeSausage
2019 Thinkpad E595

"Christians are killing women in this country. And the poor. And
disabled. And the poor. Look at the "Bible Belt" where all of these
things and so much more are worse. We are in end-stage capitalized
fueled by right wing extremist Christians. Muslims do not do nearly the
harm." - Sodomite Snit Brock McNuggets Michael Glasser, lying shamelessly.
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On Fri, 15 May 2026 20:22:26 +0700, JJ wrote:

It'd be pointless if it doesn't remember rolled back bad updates and
manually uninstalled updates, since they'll will be redownloaded and reapplied again.

At one point I had a machine on the Windows Insider program. No problem
until they split out developers and canaries. The update would churn for a long time, admit defeat, and roll back. Every day. Ultimately I had to reinstall the standard version. Judging from the Insiders forum I wasn't alone.
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On Fri, 15 May 2026 20:22:26 +0700, JJ wrote:

On Thu, 14 May 2026 23:33:35 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence DrCOOliveiro wrote:

Yet another bandaid on top of all the other bandaids stuck on the
ever-shakier house of cards that is Microsoft Windows
<https://www.theverge.com/news/930303/windows-update-automatic-driver-rollback-feature>.

WhatrCOs the bet that Microsoft will at some point bring out an
update that manages to break this rollback feature? (Entirely
inadvertently, of course.)

Say ... sometime in the next 12 months?

It'd be pointless if it doesn't remember rolled back bad updates and
manually uninstalled updates, since they'll will be redownloaded and reapplied again.

Even more opportunities to get things wrong, eh?
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