MajorLanGod <
lonelydad58@gmail.com> wrote:
Acer Aspire 5 laptop with Klipsh PM2.1 BT extrmal speker.
Could not get any sound today. No internal speaker, no powered speaker
out of headphone jack, no Bluetooth sound.
I rebooted. Since there was an update pending I had to suffer through
that as well. Mirosoft lies - the simple 6 minute update took 22
minutes not counting restarting Windows. Sound now works just fine.
If the updates affect audio, and since updates often replace existing
files, and since some existing files are in use (locked), a reboot is
needed to replace those files, especially system files. During boot, a PendingFileRenameOperations registry entry allows moving, renaming,
deleting, and copying files before they get locked.
https://qtechbabble.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/use-pendingfilerenameoperations-registry-key-to-automatically-delete-a-file-on-reboot/
During update, you can end up with a mix of incompatible files which is corrected on a reboot to do the file replaces. Even if an update does
not declare a reboot is required, plan to do one, anyway. After an
update, but before reboot, the fileset state may be in limbo.
There are some utilities to let you rename or delete files that are
locked by adding them to the PendingFileRenameOperations registry key,
and the action gets committed on the next boot of Windows. I happen to
use LockHunter, but there are similar tools to handle locked files. If
it cannot immediately unlock the file, or kill the process with a handle
on it, it offers to add an entry in the registry to do the rename,
delete, move, copy operation on a Windows reboot.
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