The update took ages to complete, just sitting there all day and night with a plain grey screen (it wasn’t jet black) and plenty of disc activity. I already have a large post-it on my ASUS N55S stating this is now the trademark of a Win10 1903 update underway. I should draw some tears on it. I had to shut down twice to get it to complete.
After the update, Logon was troublesome until I worked out the update had reset the language to English-US rather than my default UK. The ability to change language on the logon screen had gone so I had to imitate a US keyboard. My user profile went missing as did my custom icons, my desktop and Start Menu were reset to Microsoft default, and my desktop files had gone missing. Microsoft Office Applications had all been set back to never-been-used status and all their histories and preferred settings had been wiped. Google Chrome was replaced by Edge as the default browser and, when started, Google Chrome was in brand new state with all my histories, settings, privacy, site blocks/allowances and add-ins removed including Adblock.
With relief I discovered that my User data in C:/Users is still there and seems intact, but there is now a new user folder alongside named TEMP (it echoes with emptiness). The Quick Links to Desktop, Documents etc all point to this TEMP user, not my normal User that I logged in with.
Some other forums suggest try restarting 3 times but that just succeeded in removing any changes I had done since the update earlier today (e.g. new shortcuts, Chrome setup, language change to UK…).
Registry patching has also been suggested but I’m not confident that I’ve found all the issues yet and therefore it could be a long haul (and risky) to get to a good state.
Hopefully Uninstalling today’s updates should return me to a good pre-update state and I’ll set my network to public for a while. For me it was a set of 3 : KB4532693 Win 10 1903 cumulative update, KB4534132 .Net Framework, KB4537759 Adobe Flash Player
Wasted a whole day on this so far.
Surprisingly, Microsoft does not list any known issues associated with KB4532693 and a search on this forum could find no mention of it (maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place. There are lots of hits for it elsewhere on the web.
Hope this helps others out there.
I’ll post back on the Uninstall outcome.
After the update, Logon was troublesome until I worked out the update had reset the language to English-US rather than my default UK. The ability to change language on the logon screen had gone so I had to imitate a US keyboard. My user profile went missing as did my custom icons, my desktop and Start Menu were reset to Microsoft default, and my desktop files had gone missing. Microsoft Office Applications had all been set back to never-been-used status and all their histories and preferred settings had been wiped. Google Chrome was replaced by Edge as the default browser and, when started, Google Chrome was in brand new state with all my histories, settings, privacy, site blocks/allowances and add-ins removed including Adblock.
With relief I discovered that my User data in C:/Users is still there and seems intact, but there is now a new user folder alongside named TEMP (it echoes with emptiness). The Quick Links to Desktop, Documents etc all point to this TEMP user, not my normal User that I logged in with.
Some other forums suggest try restarting 3 times but that just succeeded in removing any changes I had done since the update earlier today (e.g. new shortcuts, Chrome setup, language change to UK…).
Registry patching has also been suggested but I’m not confident that I’ve found all the issues yet and therefore it could be a long haul (and risky) to get to a good state.
Hopefully Uninstalling today’s updates should return me to a good pre-update state and I’ll set my network to public for a while. For me it was a set of 3 : KB4532693 Win 10 1903 cumulative update, KB4534132 .Net Framework, KB4537759 Adobe Flash Player
Wasted a whole day on this so far.
Surprisingly, Microsoft does not list any known issues associated with KB4532693 and a search on this forum could find no mention of it (maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place. There are lots of hits for it elsewhere on the web.
Hope this helps others out there.
I’ll post back on the Uninstall outcome.
