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Old 11-02-2013, 12:40 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by cerendir View Post
...aaaaand now Win 8 appears to be broken. :|

I shut the computer down before I left from work and Windows installed a bunch of updates. When I started it up again when I got home I got as far as the ASUS startup screen. Then the screen went blank and flicks on and off at like 1.5 sec intervals, and the hard drive is very, very busy with something. It's been doing this for half an hour now.

Normal updating behavior?
If your computer shuts down due to running out battery DURING windows update, you need to try system restore (run safe mode IIRC) to undo the half-baked updates. Yes, those half-baked updates will cause problems, and this is how I fixed it when my computer couldn't start up after updates... because it shut down before it was finished.

I don't understand any haters of Windows 8. I love metro. It's just a new start menu, and it's a better one. The vertical start menu is an old invention and needs to go.
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