Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.
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@pie_flavor how do we know that's not just a side-effect of the sheer number of people using Windows?
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@lb_ It probably is. The Network Effect is a heck of a thing when the network is a world-wide one.
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@ben_lubar said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
- Microsoft uninstalled VirtualBox's driver
- Doing a repair install of VirtualBox required downloading 100MB and doing yet another reboot.
- VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).
- I checked, and Hyper-V is disabled. Time to go back to the machine and figure out how to fix VT-x in the BIOS again.
VirtualBox works just fine here. This post was sent through one.
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@parody said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
@ben_lubar Interesting. Under "Device security", "Core isolation/Memory integrity" is off on my machine and it doesn't say it's managed by my Administrator. VirtualBox has been working fine.
That's because it's turned off. If you turn it on, it becomes locked in that state until you edit the registry.
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@lb_ I had a LOT of file not found errors when trying to diagnose the hyper-v thing. At one point it told me that "OptionalFeatures.exe" wasn't found even though I was able to open it, so I'm assuming they moved or renamed a bunch of stuff.
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@ben_lubar said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
It turns out that Microsoft is using the rootkit method of making the user's OS into a VM.
And even more helpfully, you can't disable the feature unless you edit a registry key like this random Russian person says:
That's not good. In the middle of a malware reverse engineering project due Monday, so I'd better not let the update take before then, just in case...
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@heterodox said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
@ben_lubar said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
It turns out that Microsoft is using the rootkit method of making the user's OS into a VM.
And even more helpfully, you can't disable the feature unless you edit a registry key like this random Russian person says:
That's not good. In the middle of a malware reverse engineering project due Monday, so I'd better not let the update take before then, just in case...
By the way, did they remove the update rollback feature or is it not available on Windows 10 Home? Because I couldn't find it anywhere.
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@ben_lubar said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
By the way, did they remove the update rollback feature or is it not available on Windows 10 Home? Because I couldn't find it anywhere.
No idea. My hard drive is perpetually low on space so Windows.old got nuked months ago.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
Oh, you thought that "install" meant install install?No, for that you're going to need the web install, which will install the Downloader for the offline installer, which will unpack the full installer, which prepares the kid InstallShied wizard, which extracts the installer to install the installation package for the TrustedInstaller user to install the preparation package, which prepares to install the prepared package payload and will require a reboot because what is locking?
Oh, you just installed Visual Studio too?
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@ben_lubar said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
like two hours and a quarter now at least
Mine finished completely in less than an hour. But then, I have decent hardware...
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@ben_lubar said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
WARNING: you currently have a PASSWORD but Microsoft recommends using YOUR FACE instead
Whats really annoying about that - I move my mouse to click
Dismissand the this-is-highlighted "feature" makes it bigger. And I actually click onSet up. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea???
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@gąska said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
@kt_ care to elaborate?
I have two-factor authentication enabled on my Microsoft account. Any time I log in, I have to open a phone app and approve the login.
Yet somehow people in Thailand keep logging into my MS account and sending spam out through Skype, and I never get a 2FA request...
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@ben_lubar said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
@ben_lubar said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
- Microsoft uninstalled VirtualBox's driver
- Doing a repair install of VirtualBox required downloading 100MB and doing yet another reboot.
- VT-x is not available (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).
- I checked, and Hyper-V is disabled. Time to go back to the machine and figure out how to fix VT-x in the BIOS again.
VT-x is still enabled in the BIOS. Did Microsoft put my computer into a VM like a rootkit would? I can't think of any other reason for VT-x not being available when I'm using my computer.
Did MS reset the hypervisor setting to Hyper-V would work? (Which breaks VMware, and I'd assume VB too.)
In an admin console:
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype offand then reboot.
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@mott555 said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
Yet somehow people in Thailand keep logging into my MS account and sending spam out through Skype, and I never get a 2FA request...
Heh, yeah. The Skype side of my Microsoft account was hacked ages ago and occasionally someone comes around and emails all my contacts on that account. Hilarious, since I can't do a password reset, and the account verification fails because apparently they fucked that up so that details I'm reading from within the account itself are not what Skype sees. It's amazing.
Edit: though if you can log in, my username is "tsaukpaetra" and my password (was) the password I use for everything (back in 2005 at least).
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@mott555 said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
I have two-factor authentication enabled on my Microsoft account. Any time I log in, I have to open a phone app and approve the login.
Yet somehow people in Thailand keep logging into my MS account and sending spam out through Skype, and I never get a 2FA request...@tsaukpaetra said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
The Skype side of my Microsoft account was hacked ages ago
Go here and remove the ability to sign in with any skype usernames or phone numbers that are listed:
https://account.live.com/names/Manage
https://account.live.com/SignInPreferences?amru=names%2FManage
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@lb_ said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
Go here and remove the ability to sign in with any skype usernames or phone numbers that are listed:
BTDT.
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@tsaukpaetra oh, it looks like your Skype account was never properly merged with your Microsoft account in the first place. No idea how to fix that.
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@lb_ said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
@tsaukpaetra oh, it looks like your Skype account was never properly merged with your Microsoft account in the first place. No idea how to fix that.
Yeah.....
I don't bother usually, it's not a big deal to get spam every six months or so from that address...
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@lb_ said in Windows is mentally preparing itself to install updates. Please wait.:
Go here and remove the ability to sign in with any skype usernames or phone numbers that are listed:
Whenever I try to do that sort of thing, I get a message telling me that my account has been disabled by my local administrator. And which keeps on telling me that over and over, no matter what I click on, until I just kill the web page. (It's linked to the weird things we've done with email addresses at work and the fact that we outsource just student email to MS, but not staff email. But apparently that makes doing anything with MS accounts there broken. Fortunately, I can just keep on logging into skype as before and at least that part isn't totally fucked.) IOW, combining accounts when mergers occur can lead to really annoying inconsistent states with no obvious way to fix them.
