Troublesome

So my laptop spectacularly failed to start up this morning.

No obvious reason, just black screen and no hard disk activity after Windows had started to load.

Thankfully, as Windows has improved, so has its crash recovery. Switching off the machine, then switching it on again kicked it into Safe Mode and offered me a system recovery, which I gladly accepted.

Because, naturally, the machine spectacularly failed to start up after applying a Windows Update.

Funnily enough, these are disabled on all the office machines, and I can see why. While it's useful to have the most up to date software running one's machine, if the most up to date software isn't compatible with one's machine, one is liable run into some difficulty.

So, Automatic Updates are disabled now. Tsk.