...help?
very descriptive error with Windows Update
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darwin -
April 4, 2023 at 12:36 PM -
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Your user profile is corrupted.
Follow this guide and get back to me when you do please.
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created a new user. now what?
Try to update, and then move your stuff to the new user
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created a new user. now what?
Try to update, and then move your stuff to the new user
didn't work. Windows Update still throws the same error.
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Try to update, and then move your stuff to the new user
didn't work. Windows Update still throws the same error.
Usually it's a user profile problem, but it seems like the borking might be deeper in
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The holy trinity of Microsoft's technical support in case of random system corruption is:
dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
sfc /scannow
chkdsk c: /f
Just did that yesterday at work to fix Windows Update and it worked lol
If it fails, doing an in-place upgrade using the Windows installer would likely replace any borked system file.
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didn't work. Windows Update still throws the same error.
Usually it's a user profile problem, but it seems like the borking might be deeper in
Display MoreThe holy trinity of Microsoft's technical support in case of random system corruption is:
dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
sfc /scannow
chkdsk c: /f
Just did that yesterday at work to fix Windows Update and it worked lol
If it fails, doing an in-place upgrade using the Windows installer would likely replace any borked system file.
have tried all of the above. still same error.
while trying to fix Windows Update, I also discovered that the computer, while charging, will (regardless of activity or power settings) randomly turn off the display, and there is no way to turn it back on afterwards. this is reproducible on other Windows installations, but only while charging. -
while trying to fix Windows Update, I also discovered that the computer, while charging, will (regardless of activity or power settings) randomly turn off the display, and there is no way to turn it back on afterwards. this is reproducible on other Windows installations, but only while charging.
Does putting it to sleep and waking it up fix the display? Seems like something weird is going on with your laptops hardware
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while trying to fix Windows Update, I also discovered that the computer, while charging, will (regardless of activity or power settings) randomly turn off the display, and there is no way to turn it back on afterwards. this is reproducible on other Windows installations, but only while charging.
Does putting it to sleep and waking it up fix the display? Seems like something weird is going on with your laptops hardware
no, sleep does not fix anything as far as I can tell.
additional testing also reveals that the computer responds to keystrokes, so it's just the display that's not functioning correctly.
