JoeJoe wrote:
After the latest Windows update a few days ago - both several "standard" updatesI thought we were still within Microsoft's xmas change freeze? I've had no updates (other than defender definitions) since 14th of December ...
+ a feature update, and the mandatory restart, the machine started to a BSO with
the error message 0Xc000021a which Google provides very little in terms of understanding the cause of how to fix it.
it possible that the update was indeed then but that the machine was only restarted after Christmas, so they did not come into effect until then. I am not certain but seem to recall that I started experienceing strange behaviour with Windows Explorer (took forever to list items within a selected folder, took forever to sort items within a folder etc), so decided to manually restart in the hope that it would start to behave, and this is when the updates/changes did take place.
After the latest Windows update a few days ago - both several "standard" updates
+ a feature update, and the mandatory restart, the machine started to a BSO with
the error message 0Xc000021a which Google provides very little in terms of understanding the cause of how to fix it.
A 3 year old top-of-the-range-at-the-time office desktop.
Came with Windows 10 Pro, and I have chosen to ignore Windows 11 pleas
to update so far. Had no reason to "touch" Windows in the last 3 years -
just the regular updates
After the latest Windows update a few days ago - both several "standard" updates + a feature update, and the mandatory restart, the machine
started to a BSO with the error message 0Xc000021a which Google provides
very little in terms of understanding the cause of how to fix it.
I managed to boot to Recovery (F12), and after uninstalling the standard updates the machine started fine again.
As I did not prevent it from updating again, the BSOD returned the next
day after the restart.
This time recovery would not allow me to undo the updates, but luckily I
was able to restore to the last restore point and the machine is working again.
It has already updated again and will restart during the night (I have
all the options for an auto-restart-after-update set to NO, but it still
does it...
- I do not wish to update to Win 11 at this stage
- Windows and all the apps are installed on one drive. Everything else
is on a separate physical drive (and backed up), so not worried about that.
- Should I go for the option offered in Recovery to "re-install Windows without losing your data"?
- Drive C (where Windows is installed) has 2 Recovery partitions - one
of 1GB, the other of 16GB, so I assume that there is a fresh Dell image stored there. Am happy to download an OS ISO from Dell website or
Microsoft if needed for a fresh install.
- The machine has MANY apps installed and it will take me a very long
time to wipe the drive clean and re-install/set up everything which I
hope to avoid.
- If I am forced to re-install Windows then I will probably opt for a
clean install as I am sure that there is a lot of associated junk
accumulated over the years.
Any idea how to proceed please?
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