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October 2026 Windows Update causing major issues
We have had about 50 computers in our organization giving boot failures after Windows restarts to apply the October update, KB5127648. Affected machines are Dell devices, both laptops and desktops. T...
Hey, I'm just some guy who used to work in software, sorry to barge in. This seemed like a good place to report all the desktop experience issues I've had with a machine that was pretty well isolated from other variables when the PC took this update. My machine is pretty well unusable and lots of programs are failing in a way that makes me suspect something OS related.
It's really annoying. Many actions don't take the first time? And it takes forever to think about everything, and licensing stuff is failing for audio plugin PACE and not launching at all, and there are technical error messages with the Circle-X icon.
Oh and there's a mysterious new blank icon in my tray that doesn't do anything.