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"A Restart is Pending" work-around

I've started applying a recent workstation hotfix and this one (WS_05) has numerous other piecemeal patches that must be removed first. In days of yore, all of these could be uninstalled and the new patch installed without having to reboot. I think I would install all the Microsoft patches too - then reboot in one fell swoop. Any idea why the new constraint? It's already disruptive to apply patches and hotfixes, and having to do multiple reboots just makes the whole ordeal take longer.

Running 14.3.1 on a number of stand-alone (non-virtual) workstations and servers. W10 / Server 2016.

Update . . . after failing to fully read the "readme", I see where the hotfix installer now features "automatically uninstall incompatible hotfixes". Sadly I skipped straight to the list and began squinting at "Programs and Features".

• patches #hotfixes

John Rezabek

• 19 Mar 2020 8:27 PM
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• Andre Dicaire

  

  • 19 Mar 2020 8:53 PM

  Ah, the days of yore. How I miss them sometimes.
  
  hate to tell you John but WS-06 is on its way. It's not yet up on the Download site, but imminent. I'll be installing on my demo ASAP.
  
  Complexity and dependencies usually drive decision to require reboot. If we don't reboot, system might not be ready for next component, or is too complicated and risky to try and anticipate all possible scenarios. Best would be no hotfixes or patches, no?
  
  But if it makes you feel better, you are not alone.

  Andre Dicaire

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• John Rezabek

  

  • 19 Mar 2020 9:04 PM

  In reply to Andre Dicaire:

  The installer that uninstalls the incompatible hotfixes is a nice feature. UDEP?

  Dodging dodgey viruses / social distancing. Important espcially for those who can remember the "days of yore".

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