You are teaching me to move in a different folder/directory coz you want to show me something.. Baklash is correct for c prompt aand other partition/harddisk... Im really sorry I did that!! Nalaman ba ng lahat? Pinakita ni JE yun!! 😊😊😊 😂😂😂😂😂
After working in IT for 18 years, updating thousands of computers and servers every month...I certainly can say avoid shutdown your computer when it's updating. In my experience there is a 5% of chance of something breaking up and taking several hours to fix (if you know how to fix of course). Only shutdown the pc if the updates is running for more than a hour and there is no sign of progress.
@@jamesplays7230 To force the shutdown of the PC press the power button for about 5 seconds. If the computer is updating and you force shutdown, there is a chance to damage the operational system.
@@pixelmaster98 Not always. BIOS updates change the programming on the BIOS chips themselves, which is very different from CMOS settings. Unless your motherboard has a special USB port and the button for flashing the BIOS, failing the BIOS update could very well brick the motherboard.
@@TheEDFLegacy Luckily some motherboards allow you to remove the bios chip to replace it with a new one from the manufacturer. I had to do that myself ~10 years ago when a BIOS update failed. IT was $15 to get the new chip.
Many newer motherboards have a secondary bios chip as well. So, if the primary chip is unreadable due to a failed update, the secondary bios chip data is used to reprogram the prior chip to previous version.
We love when you’re updating drivers and the power cable to your hard drive magically decides to pop out for no reason. I kid you not, I started the update, found myself a screen of death, opened my PC, and the cable was just chilling there next to the hard drive. Wasn’t a power outage, nothing even bumped the PC. The cable just apparently really didn’t like its job.
@@moosa1461 Yep, permanent Startup Repair Loop. No solution since it was the OS itself that was fucked. I WAS able to save my files, new hard drive and salvaged everything important by combing through the corrupted mess as an external drive. Always remember: If your files are biffed and it looks like there's no way out, all you need is a laptop to salvage your old files and a new drive. If you already own a laptop, you can get a newer, probably-better hard drive for like 80 bucks, just bite the bullet. Save yourself the headache.
shit you not, while reading your comment i decided to look into my pc and there it is… A CABLE POPPED OUT…. you saved me hours of stress with this funny comment 😅
@Why T Windows 7 wasn't in existance until 9 years after I left school with Abitur. So no, I have not. Quite the contrary. Since our school's designated admin was barely up to snuff, me and my best friend were practically responsible for all of the infrastructure. And responsible we were. We also finished with the two top grades of our class despite not having fudged any of it. And we both also got girls. Go figure.
@@hazgebu ewwww yeah, that's a gross one too. 3 sounds every Windows user knows. The startup, the error and the bluescreen hammering. Actually one of the biggest laughs in my life was when MS very proudly announced that most users will never see the bluescreen again (Win7?) - and then I found the activated "hide bluescreen" checkbox in the options. I literally rofl'ed the next two minutes.
When I was job hunting (IT support), sometimes I would be asked "what have you been doing to keep up tech wise?" and my response has been to praise the density of information found in LTT (and affiliated) videos. Some recruiters did not find this to be an acceptable answer. Joke's on them, this was basically a condensed CompTIA A+ module in a 4 minute video, AND I found a job where the technical recruiter recognized how much you can learn from LTT AND I get paid more than the jobs where the recruiters were snobs :P
That notepad tip is actually big, I never heard of that before, but it makes sense and would make life much easier than trying to move things around via command prompt.
@@Hotshot2k4 for me, learning how to use command prompt was the best thing about using a computer so far. "xcopy" can be more useful than using the notepad tip. i used that cause i was resistant to learning commands but after a while even that trick stopped working. now that i am comfortable using command prompt, i use "/capture-image" whenever i make an important change so that i don't have to redo my settings after reinstalling windows should things go awry.
Had something like this happen recently due to a failing power supply. Windows would not boot, and after running some tests I discovered that my System partition (where boot files are stored, including the MBR) was no longer recognized (aka likely corrupt). Thankfully I was able to create a new System partition and use a third-party utility to generate new boot files and a new MBR.
Yes it will if it's non-critical updates, No it won't if it is. But if it is, There's still a possibility to fix, If not and all else fails you can still get to your files. Does this sum the video up?
1:19 It Shows 계획대로 진행되지 않았습니다. 걱정할 필요가 없습니다. 변경 내용이 취소됩니다. 컴퓨터를 계속 켜 두세요. (It didn't go as planned. You don't have to worry. Changes will be canceled. Keep the computer on.) (I Tried To Force Restart, Fine lol)
I had a power outage during an update and I shat my pants when I remembered that windows message. Booted it back up and got the blue screen of death. Took 2 weeks to figure out how to boot from a USB..
It can be done with any application that allows saving through the Windows interface as it's simply using a section of Explorer. Notepad is just the one with the most minimal overhead so it's the least likely to cause problems.
dont tell anyone but i used to use that trick in middle school to pull other students data they had saved to the computer instead of the school network. It was really funny until one of my teachers heard about it.
As a technician, and thus someone who sees far more broken system than working ones, I might be a little biased negatively against windows update. That being said, it usually is able to recover from power loss during an update. Though, sometimes, I've seen systems have a power loss while supposedly non-critical updates are being applied in the background that required an OS reinstall. In general, just don't cut power.
Linus: “Apparently this script was not written assuming I would host it” The script: Here you’re supposed to say “Apparently this script was not written assuming I would host it”
@@Kelson01 haha wow you're right, it's almost as if they were making a joke about the fact that it could possibly be fully scripted, but no that's impossible
This goes back at least a decade- - but I once accidentally kicked my computer power cord out while doing a Windows XP update on a Dell desktop, - - and I had to take the computer to my local computerguy to get it working again, and my hard drive got partly corrupted. Fortunately, I had a lot of it backed up so I didn't loose too much, but I was without my computer for about a week while they worked on it.
So...I wish I knew this in 2018 when I did turn off the computer. I ended up getting a fatal Blue Menu of Death...and you don't wanna know what that means. After I re-installed Windows, I realized that all my data was lost forever and I had made no backups (while the other user who had the computer hadn't lost a single file). The only good thing is that I became an administrator user when I wasn't one before...way to gain things am I right?
Having spent 15 years in support for more than 3K computers, the number of times I’ve ignored that warning to fix stuck updates is well into the hundreds.
I have a problem where someone accidentally turned off pc when it was updating now I can't use search bar or windows bar also no apps on the line and now it broke can you help?
I shut mine while updating, it now has infinite amount of ram, has triple threadrippers, insane graphic capabilities and 16 petabytes of SSD fast storage
I saved a bunch of time and headache by not letting Windows update at all. The last time I did an update, I went out of town for the weekend. It was done when I got back, but I dont even want to know how long it took. I know at least 4 - 5 hours. And all they added was a damn weather widget in the task bar.
@@BusterBeachside Right click on the Volume icon in the Taskbar, select 'Sound' from the popup menu, you should then see an option to enable Startup sound. But I'm not sure if this is the sound that will be played.
Note: While odds are good that nothing major will happen if you lose power during a Windows update, if you lose power during a BIOS update might potentially brick your computer. You won't lose your data, though.
A bios update can be recovered, depending on the board, some can be flashed by putting the correct binary file on a usb stick and putting it in a particular usb port and turning on the PC.
@Zwenk Wiel could be a power outage. The internal components may never fail but if you lose power, not much you could do unless you had a UPS installed. Of course yeah it’s rare, but it does happen
I actually bought a UPS because I was worried about what would happen if the power went out during an update. At least I now have light when the power goes out. Thanks for the info.
believe me as a computer repair guy generally non of these solutions work. You will save time and money just reinstalling windows rather than trying to fix it. keep a backup of your data every day if you are using windows.
@play gray NO DUDE, maple syrup actually helps the semi-conductors relay electricity faster due to the viscosity of the liquid! Everyone who's used a pc knows this 😐
@@moonlitee Right, don't know what this guy is on about? He fears that maple syrup might interfere and brick the board, when in reality, is the solution to most major issues.
Windows update be like: “I will now wake your computer up from sleep and update without telling you while your laptop battery is on 3%” …”oops it died. Hope you got a boot drive handy…” (True story btw)
Pulseway just targeting the right people to offer their service. And, not so surprisingly, LTT's viewers and other similiar channel are the people Pulseway targetting.
95% of instructional videos could be like this instead of 35 minute “back in 1980 when reinstalling your OS meant to insert a diskette - which by the way was originally designed by a Frenchman during his lunch break…” bla-bla.
2:00 I had a friend whose laptop decided to apply an update in the middle of a league of legends game. We were all sitting around the table. He gave it a few minutes, but quickly became impatient, and decided to hold down the power button for 5 seconds. Computer would post, but not load windows. Lucky for him I had a spare computer for him to use while I was reinstalling his. Moral of the story: a few minutes of patience could save you, or your techie friend, a few hours of work. Please do try to avoid turning off your computer when it is updating. Like improperly handling a knife, you may get away with it many times. You may never ever be punished for it. But it only takes one wrong slip into your gut, and it won't matter if you had done it once, or a thousand times before. That *was* your last chance.
My brother shuts down his PC every time upon an update. His PC originally never gets past them so he just shuts it down and windows is like "okay cheif ill let it slide this time"
As an IT tech I see that as an indication that windows doesn't work as intended and needs some attention. Usually I am able to fix these kinds of problems given time, but most of the time it would have been faster to just reinstall the OS. This breaks down when your OS heavily modified and has so many tweaks to make it work the way you want it to that you can't begin to recall just what all those tweaks were. Personally I'm a packrat. I hoard utilities and tweaks so it's hard to see where one tweak ends and another starts. This forces me to really take care to keep the OS running as a reinstall would be disastrous for my user experience. Sure I would eventually get back to something workable, probably even better, but I hate to go through the pain. The record was a WinXP installation that I used every day for about ten years. No reinstall ever, and it was still really snappy and well behaved after all that time. Well as snappy as it could be on five years old hardware. Yes I migrated that installation from a previous system. Only reason I gave it up was that MS stopped providing important upgrades and some new programs wouldn't run on a 32 bit OS any more...
@@kensmith5694 I've dabled with Linux since the first kernel was released, but never got real fond of it. I was a UNIX admin for several years deploying and servicing Unix installations for customers using these to run commercial applications, and am certified, or at least I was certified for Unix System V and AIX version whatever, can't remember. But for some reason Linux strokes me the wrong way. I think it's the many elitists you encounter who blows people off unless they can hack together a Linux from Scratch system in less than a couple of hours. Is it strange if people are put off when they are met with the attitude that if you don't know how everything works then go pound sand? If they knew then they wouldn't be asking, and if they are asking then they are trying to learn. That and the huge diversity of distributions. Sure they are all GNU Linux, but they are often also very different from each other. I had customers running everything from pure Red Hat to CentOS to Ubuntu to LFS and who knows what else. And then there were Solaris. BSD and all the other Unix based operating systems. It seemed like every time they got stuck their system was just different enough that it took hours just to figure out just what the difference was that kept the "standard" solutions from working on their machine. So while everybody is heaping praise over Linux for it's diversity and flexibility it's exactly that I find frustrating. With Windows there is one OS I have to learn to support and it looks and works almost exactly the same on workstations as on servers. With Linux and Unix based operating systems there are probably at least ten major distributions and countless special versions I can run into all just slightly different from each other. Don't get me wrong. Linux and Unix are great. But the diversity makes it darn hard to provide support for the customers who use them. If I could concentrate on one or two versions it might have been OK, but not the hundreds there are now.
It's funny how one windows update that took 8 hours ruined my laptop and I had to go back to a system restore point. the c: drive looked like it got cleared after the update finished installing
I accidentally powered off my pc today during the start of an update and when i tried to boot it back, it would not boot. I tried many things. Automatic repair wont do anything. I guess I have to reinstall Windows now. Currently using a live Linux bootable. All my files are safe though.
I mean, you just set the minute hand to rotate at a steady speed and then you set the hour hand to rotate at 1/12 that speed. It would not take less effort to make them turn wrongly.
2:45 From the Advanced Options area, you also have the option of uninstalling the last update or feature update. As someone that repairs PCs for a living, those options have saved a PC from needing a Windows reinstall after an interrupted update, more often then not. If the system isn't booting, you have nothing to lose by trying it.
Yes, and rolling back is also a good option when for whatever reason the update messes up the font sizes etc. Suddenly having letters on the screen the size of my thumb was "interesting"
@@Senilityy nothing major happened! :D I'm still alive haha, my laptop just went straight back and updated properly in like 5 mins. gonna have to try that again sometime :)
Bios update during a thunderstorm is the best thrill in the world.
Living on the edge
I lost a motherboard exactly like this. The catch is it was an automated updated, I didn't chose to do that ha
@@ElPolloRojo yea it was on an Alienware computer with some of their software controlling things
@@acirinelli sounds alien
😰
Oh, so I wont get assassinated by a hitman hired by Microsoft.
LOL
Underrated comment
He never said anything about that I'm on my way over right now
Hahahaha 😂
He never said that you wont get assasinated
Using notepad to move files I need from a computer that won't boot into windows is definitely something that might be useful to me sometime.
True
my school computer wont boot because the explorer.exe is erased at some point...
Using notepad to move files I need from a computer that won't boot into windows is definitely something that might be useful to me sometime.
Notepad is on the Rescue&Install Medium but a File Manager isn't. Thank Microsoft for that.
You are teaching me to move in a different folder/directory coz you want to show me something.. Baklash is correct for c prompt aand other partition/harddisk... Im really sorry I did that!! Nalaman ba ng lahat? Pinakita ni JE yun!! 😊😊😊 😂😂😂😂😂
After working in IT for 18 years, updating thousands of computers and servers every month...I certainly can say avoid shutdown your computer when it's updating. In my experience there is a 5% of chance of something breaking up and taking several hours to fix (if you know how to fix of course). Only shutdown the pc if the updates is running for more than a hour and there is no sign of progress.
What to do i shut it down while updating and when i turned it on it shows balck screen and then it's stuck in 7% what to do
@@sunjung7930 same
How to shutdown?
@@jamesplays7230 To force the shutdown of the PC press the power button for about 5 seconds. If the computer is updating and you force shutdown, there is a chance to damage the operational system.
@@rafaelsoares4572in case the OS has been damaged, doing a factory reset & reinstalling windows can fix the issue?
i can imagine that someone will be watching this video in a panic in the future
Ofc
Yes, I did. My pc messed up during update after 2hours. Had that undo installation thing!
@@souviksen. my laptop can't update for some reason, it blue screened and I have to reset it
I alr did that 5 times before watching and I gotta tell you, blue screens, corrupted windows and etc
Lol
Nothing happens when you turn off the PC during update.
*BIOS Update:- Imma ruin this man's whole PC.
can't you just remove the CMOS battery to fix the issue?
@@pixelmaster98I don't think so🤔🤨
But you can remove it to rest bios password 🤨🤨🤨
WTH memory bios have🤔🤔
@@pixelmaster98 Not always. BIOS updates change the programming on the BIOS chips themselves, which is very different from CMOS settings. Unless your motherboard has a special USB port and the button for flashing the BIOS, failing the BIOS update could very well brick the motherboard.
@@TheEDFLegacy Luckily some motherboards allow you to remove the bios chip to replace it with a new one from the manufacturer. I had to do that myself ~10 years ago when a BIOS update failed. IT was $15 to get the new chip.
Many newer motherboards have a secondary bios chip as well. So, if the primary chip is unreadable due to a failed update, the secondary bios chip data is used to reprogram the prior chip to previous version.
Me - going to attend online class at 10am
My computer - "Getting Windows ready. Don't turn off your computer"
Wtf 👁️👄👁️
Im stuck in the same situation... And im here 👁️👄👁️
@@aplgse how u fixed it TELL ME
I'm stuck with the black screen 🤕
Turn on your PC in Advance next time. You'll never know when the update pops up again.
We love when you’re updating drivers and the power cable to your hard drive magically decides to pop out for no reason.
I kid you not, I started the update, found myself a screen of death, opened my PC, and the cable was just chilling there next to the hard drive. Wasn’t a power outage, nothing even bumped the PC. The cable just apparently really didn’t like its job.
The cable didnt get paid enough.
Then what happened? Did your files get corrupted or something
@@moosa1461
Yep, permanent Startup Repair Loop. No solution since it was the OS itself that was fucked.
I WAS able to save my files, new hard drive and salvaged everything important by combing through the corrupted mess as an external drive.
Always remember: If your files are biffed and it looks like there's no way out, all you need is a laptop to salvage your old files and a new drive. If you already own a laptop, you can get a newer, probably-better hard drive for like 80 bucks, just bite the bullet. Save yourself the headache.
shit you not, while reading your comment i decided to look into my pc and there it is… A CABLE POPPED OUT…. you saved me hours of stress with this funny comment 😅
@@Skinny6539
If plugging it back in was the end of it, the Gods have spared you several weeks of horror. I pray your good fortune shall continue.
Using NOTEPAD to open the FILE EXPLORER in freaking CMD MODE is the most _genius_ thing I've ever heard in a long while
You could of course also use ye good ole DOS commands to do the copying. But the likes that still know these seem to die out quickly :(
@@fonkbadonk2957 :(
5:36 PM
5/9/2021
I did it to save my all my precious data once. These windows crash are awful 😑.
@Why T Windows 7 wasn't in existance until 9 years after I left school with Abitur. So no, I have not.
Quite the contrary. Since our school's designated admin was barely up to snuff, me and my best friend were practically responsible for all of the infrastructure. And responsible we were. We also finished with the two top grades of our class despite not having fudged any of it. And we both also got girls. Go figure.
I would use Xcopy in cmd to retrieve personal files when windows 8 got corrupted. I am glad i learned that trick.
Had a mini heart attack seeing the “getting windows ready” in the beginning watching RUclips full screen.
lol
I hope that you are alive and okay.
I hate it when they put in the error sound. I always get a small heart attack from a conditioned reflex. Should be forbidden to use that!
@@steemlenn8797 or the sound stutter that comes before/during a bluescreen...
Always gets me even on my phone
@@hazgebu ewwww yeah, that's a gross one too.
3 sounds every Windows user knows. The startup, the error and the bluescreen hammering.
Actually one of the biggest laughs in my life was when MS very proudly announced that most users will never see the bluescreen again (Win7?) - and then I found the activated "hide bluescreen" checkbox in the options. I literally rofl'ed the next two minutes.
When I was job hunting (IT support), sometimes I would be asked "what have you been doing to keep up tech wise?" and my response has been to praise the density of information found in LTT (and affiliated) videos. Some recruiters did not find this to be an acceptable answer. Joke's on them, this was basically a condensed CompTIA A+ module in a 4 minute video, AND I found a job where the technical recruiter recognized how much you can learn from LTT AND I get paid more than the jobs where the recruiters were snobs :P
In university I often wondered, why I need to sit there for 90 minutes when you could easily explain everything in 10 ...
**shuts computer down during update**
me: how f**ked am I?
BIOS update: yes
me, who always turns off the computer when windows is updating as a kid: *chuckles* I'm in danger
Bruh
Bruh
hurB
kcus uoY
always do that because windows stuck in update everytime, man i hate windows
"Even the most disastrous updates shouldn't touch your personal data on the drive."
Well you know, aside from that one time.
Very shocked they didn't reference that update even if it was just a quick joke, think it was 19h2.
uuh... burns
@@gundoxcrit1652 it was 1809
Edit: I got the year wrong. Fixed now
@@rpst39 Yeah, 19H2
shush shhhh
A bios update during a thunder storm must be highway to hell
That doesn't affect Laptops it will only affect mains powered PCs
That feeling when you finish watching video and you are ready to use your newly gained knowledge but update is already done...Nice :)
Turning off a PC during an update is like replying to emails that say to not to reply
bruh lol
Thats a really good way to put it ngl
except one can lead to data loss and the other one to an automated bot answering the same stuff over and over, for as long as you try it
Not really
Explain how these two are alike. The only thing in common is "doing something you're told not to"
User: "I'm using notepad now as my file browser!"
IT: "Wait, what?!"
User: "I saw it on Linus Tech Tips!"
I’ve actually done that using the install disc more times than I want to admit.
I usually look at the files that way while installing Windows, because I can.
That notepad tip is actually big, I never heard of that before, but it makes sense and would make life much easier than trying to move things around via command prompt.
@@Hotshot2k4
for me, learning how to use command prompt was the best thing about using a computer so far. "xcopy" can be more useful than using the notepad tip. i used that cause i was resistant to learning commands but after a while even that trick stopped working.
now that i am comfortable using command prompt, i use "/capture-image" whenever i make an important change so that i don't have to redo my settings after reinstalling windows should things go awry.
Had something like this happen recently due to a failing power supply. Windows would not boot, and after running some tests I discovered that my System partition (where boot files are stored, including the MBR) was no longer recognized (aka likely corrupt). Thankfully I was able to create a new System partition and use a third-party utility to generate new boot files and a new MBR.
Instructions unclear, turned it off, crashed and hasn't turned on since
User: "Will my computer be fine if I turn it off during an update?"
Linus: "Well yes, but actually no"
Having rescued 2 friends laptops from bad win10 updates last month.
Thats really accurate
"yes, but actually no" accurate
Well yes, but maybe not
Yes it will if it's non-critical updates, No it won't if it is. But if it is, There's still a possibility to fix, If not and all else fails you can still get to your files. Does this sum the video up?
@@mozzjones6943 perfect.
I clicked on this because I was curious, I learned a whole lesson.
Same and it was in my recommendations
Same
It was recommended and I was curious
You mean you switch it off... right?
Yeah, I learnt not to be Linus
1:19 It Shows
계획대로 진행되지 않았습니다.
걱정할 필요가 없습니다. 변경 내용이 취소됩니다. 컴퓨터를 계속 켜 두세요.
(It didn't go as planned.
You don't have to worry. Changes will be canceled. Keep the computer on.)
(I Tried To Force Restart, Fine lol)
I had a power outage during an update and I shat my pants when I remembered that windows message. Booted it back up and got the blue screen of death. Took 2 weeks to figure out how to boot from a USB..
The note pad trick is something I never knew. Glad I know that now
It can be done with any application that allows saving through the Windows interface as it's simply using a section of Explorer. Notepad is just the one with the most minimal overhead so it's the least likely to cause problems.
Me too.
@@lordlundar That's even better to know
dont tell anyone but i used to use that trick in middle school to pull other students data they had saved to the computer instead of the school network. It was really funny until one of my teachers heard about it.
That's what I call "The Big Brain move".
the world ends
Yes You-win
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It's too late the thing that almost eveyone dared to not do
worlds end club?
agreed
As a technician, and thus someone who sees far more broken system than working ones, I might be a little biased negatively against windows update. That being said, it usually is able to recover from power loss during an update. Though, sometimes, I've seen systems have a power loss while supposedly non-critical updates are being applied in the background that required an OS reinstall. In general, just don't cut power.
I have done it and when i turned it back on, it resumed again
Linus: “Apparently this script was not written assuming I would host it”
The script: Here you’re supposed to say “Apparently this script was not written assuming I would host it”
LOL
🤯
He went offscript when he said that 🤡
@@Kelson01 so smart
@@Kelson01 haha wow you're right, it's almost as if they were making a joke about the fact that it could possibly be fully scripted, but no that's impossible
*" Microsoft Pork Simulator 2022 "*
-Linus , 2021
Edit : why did this get so many likes ?!
Thank you ?
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This goes back at least a decade- - but I once accidentally kicked my computer power cord out while doing a Windows XP update on a Dell desktop, - - and I had to take the computer to my local computerguy to get it working again, and my hard drive got partly corrupted. Fortunately, I had a lot of it backed up so I didn't loose too much, but I was without my computer for about a week while they worked on it.
Had bad case of Hi-Tech slo-mo!
So...I wish I knew this in 2018 when I did turn off the computer.
I ended up getting a fatal Blue Menu of Death...and you don't wanna know what that means.
After I re-installed Windows, I realized that all my data was lost forever and I had made no backups (while the other user who had the computer hadn't lost a single file).
The only good thing is that I became an administrator user when I wasn't one before...way to gain things am I right?
nah you can go into registry hit load hive and load rem sam and change it so you can login as admin then change your perms
to add insult to injury...
You could've run recuva over over your Drive to restore what you can.
Oh well I guess to late to tell you that now eh?
I once shut off my PC on an 8 hour update. Little did I know this would delete the WHOLE C: DRIVE.
I waited 11 hours on an update only to see that the update destroyed my laptop and had to reinstall the Windows
@@davidboar6362 same lol
@@davidboar6362 that was basically a fake update aka fakedate
@@davidboar6362 relatable
I'm now on pc but my laptops windows 7 is broken now after the last 2020 updates
Don't worry, if your update gets interrupted you wont lose any personal files. Its usually only successful updates that delete personal files
Worst part is that it actually can happen
WHAT
Thats why I switched to linux.
it's*
LOLOL
Having spent 15 years in support for more than 3K computers, the number of times I’ve ignored that warning to fix stuck updates is well into the hundreds.
I have a problem where someone accidentally turned off pc when it was updating now I can't use search bar or windows bar also no apps on the line and now it broke can you help?
@@CHECHNYA3017 you need a new pc.
Were There Issues After Turning The Computer Off ?
By the end of this video my computer switched to "working on updates". Thanks Linus!
Computer guy would just come out and say “why did you turn off your pc?”
Nahh they wouldn't. Though not ideal, I have never seen an issue.
@@wrongsuitnotie8427 yeah
Nah, Mr Resetti would just show up
After that: "DiD yOu TrY rEsTaRt YoUr CoMpUtEr"
Me: Massacres must occur…
If you shut it down, when you start it up again it will be stuck on a low-res stretched version of the spinny dots. Source: personal experience
oh no it was updating the HD support!
It *can* be, but that's just one of many possibilities. It won't happen every time for everyone.
@@sodiboo true
*S P I N N Y D O T S*
I shut mine while updating, it now has infinite amount of ram, has triple threadrippers, insane graphic capabilities and 16 petabytes of SSD fast storage
I saved a bunch of time and headache by not letting Windows update at all. The last time I did an update, I went out of town for the weekend. It was done when I got back, but I dont even want to know how long it took. I know at least 4 - 5 hours. And all they added was a damn weather widget in the task bar.
To make it short :
-- Your PC gets fix stage
1:26 That sound.. I hate how it was off by default in Windows 8 and 10, it's one of the better logon sounds.
Wait... Windows 10 has a log off sound?!
@@asadfarraj *logon
Um... How do I enable this!? I thought they just got rid of logon sounds!! O_o
@@ecayeta It was edited after I wrote the comment.
@@BusterBeachside Right click on the Volume icon in the Taskbar, select 'Sound' from the popup menu, you should then see an option to enable Startup sound. But I'm not sure if this is the sound that will be played.
Next: what happens when you forget to turn on airplane mode while in a plane.
@@russ254 ooooof
@BlueCowy thats what the FBI wants you to believe
You mean turn on?
@@yourevolution7850 52+ people didnt notice that.Nice
@@fun_2814 I did lol
The madman did it. He turned off the computer while updating windows
2:55 or you can use SFC
PC: do not turn off your computer
Me: Force fully shuts it down because it gets stuck
Same
ALSO PC: starting an update with 2% battery
w.... why would you do that?!?!?!
@@zagioszek u dont have it plugged in?
Also you: Corrupts data, deletes data, and overall makes the pc unusable.
Note: While odds are good that nothing major will happen if you lose power during a Windows update, if you lose power during a BIOS update might potentially brick your computer. You won't lose your data, though.
it's almost like he said that in the video...
A bios update can be recovered, depending on the board, some can be flashed by putting the correct binary file on a usb stick and putting it in a particular usb port and turning on the PC.
@Zwenk Wiel Just buying a motherboard with either a bios flashback or dual bios seems easier if you're afraid of updating it 🤔
@Zwenk Wiel could be a power outage. The internal components may never fail but if you lose power, not much you could do unless you had a UPS installed. Of course yeah it’s rare, but it does happen
@Zwenk Wiel I prefer to do all my bios updates during heavy thunder storms.
I actually bought a UPS because I was worried about what would happen if the power went out during an update. At least I now have light when the power goes out. Thanks for the info.
I watch this for 1 minute then I check my computer is already open to the desktop.
I'm not even having any of these problems but I still feel relieved watching this
believe me as a computer repair guy generally non of these solutions work. You will save time and money just reinstalling windows rather than trying to fix it. keep a backup of your data every day if you are using windows.
@@arunashamal and how do I do that
I had. Once upgrade didn't go up beyond 37% on my PC. I rebooted it, it unrolled whatever it was doing and that's what it.
_laughs in O&O ShutUp10_
@ׂ thanks
Me, who shuts my computer off every time so I don't have to wait an hour: _Nothing._
What is this icon?
@@jaikhurana8026 radioactive?
Nothing happens
I already know
@@jaikhurana8026 Audio editing software
I did this once when I was 7 because I had no idea what was happening
An update destroyed my entire computer with no way of getting it back
The command prompt notepad.exe is the most hacker man I’ve ever felt when trying to backup files on a drive playing up
command prompt was made to look cool >:3
hacker😎🥸
Or powershell
I think you should thank the person who found out it was more consistent than directly running explorer
I remember when I ran a system file check to make sure my computer wasn’t breaking. I felt like a genius!
The notepad thing seems so obvious but I never thought of it, thanks man, today i learned something.
I use my favourite audio recording software to browse files through the open dialog to access elevated data
Back in the days there was a windows7 privilege elevation exploit with similar things xD
FEAR ME!!!!! I HAVE 1031 VIEWS ON MY YT CHANNEL!!1!1!11! Cuz i am the yt megastar🌠🌠 The redditard
@@siphobrisloks8133 uuhh any askers?!!?!?!?!
@@siphobrisloks8133 i bet that you are 9 year old
CBS,.... not that one
you killed me man 😀😂
windows: update is ready
also windows: new features: Mincrosoft pork simulator 2022
There's one update you definitely don't want to interrupt: BIOS Update
Edit: Memers and Trolls, please stay out of the reply section for this comment.
I pour maple syrup in the motherboard during the bios update so it gets more nutrients making it more efficient
ohohoh, shitttt
@play gray r/woosh ?
@play gray NO DUDE, maple syrup actually helps the semi-conductors relay electricity faster due to the viscosity of the liquid! Everyone who's used a pc knows this 😐
@@moonlitee Right, don't know what this guy is on about? He fears that maple syrup might interfere and brick the board, when in reality, is the solution to most major issues.
Finally, a question that _actually_ needs an answer
True
Yes
Even I have switched off sometimes
But nothing happened lol
It could go into an infinite startup loop.
My dumbass brother decided to shut down my pc when it was updating, now im sat here praying it is going to boot up 😅
Updating Windows 10: Estimated time- 2 lifetimes.
True
Sooooooooooooo ture
True
@David Thursby you are lucky you have a good computer and a network 😃
So trueeree
Windows: don’t turn off your computer
The electricity during a storm: *pushes glasses up on its face anime style*
*laughs in underground power lines*
Cries in category 5 storm
*Laughs in UPS*
@King Stop motion Lmao
@@markgeorge2200 *LAUGH WITH EARTHQUAKE*
Windows update be like: “I will now wake your computer up from sleep and update without telling you while your laptop battery is on 3%” …”oops it died. Hope you got a boot drive handy…”
(True story btw)
It's me, I'm panicking
I'm watching a Linus video with an ad on Linus video ft. Pulseway.
THIS is what happens when RUclips Update itself.
Pulseway just targeting the right people to offer their service. And, not so surprisingly, LTT's viewers and other similiar channel are the people Pulseway targetting.
Me too
123 likes? 3 replys? Hl3
Confirmed
@@ravysaini127 wuut?
Man just fit a whole class session into 5 minutes.
and almost 1min was purely about sponsors
ACTUALLY 5 mins and one second
95% of instructional videos could be like this instead of 35 minute “back in 1980 when reinstalling your OS meant to insert a diskette - which by the way was originally designed by a Frenchman during his lunch break…” bla-bla.
Who's trying to sleep but your window is updating
Me right now
Damn I got a reply@@TheTrendDoctor
U are updating your bios ,
Voltage fluctuation : I'm gonna end this man's pc forever
3:57 Wow Linus!
Linus used the shade reflector lmao
My name is also ayan
What video is that from 😂
2:00
I had a friend whose laptop decided to apply an update in the middle of a league of legends game. We were all sitting around the table. He gave it a few minutes, but quickly became impatient, and decided to hold down the power button for 5 seconds.
Computer would post, but not load windows. Lucky for him I had a spare computer for him to use while I was reinstalling his.
Moral of the story: a few minutes of patience could save you, or your techie friend, a few hours of work. Please do try to avoid turning off your computer when it is updating.
Like improperly handling a knife, you may get away with it many times. You may never ever be punished for it. But it only takes one wrong slip into your gut, and it won't matter if you had done it once, or a thousand times before. That *was* your last chance.
gave me a heart attack hearing "but i did john"
Not only is this video not made by another indian guy. But i have to admit, this is quality content
My brother shuts down his PC every time upon an update. His PC originally never gets past them so he just shuts it down and windows is like "okay cheif ill let it slide this time"
As an IT tech I see that as an indication that windows doesn't work as intended and needs some attention. Usually I am able to fix these kinds of problems given time, but most of the time it would have been faster to just reinstall the OS. This breaks down when your OS heavily modified and has so many tweaks to make it work the way you want it to that you can't begin to recall just what all those tweaks were. Personally I'm a packrat. I hoard utilities and tweaks so it's hard to see where one tweak ends and another starts. This forces me to really take care to keep the OS running as a reinstall would be disastrous for my user experience. Sure I would eventually get back to something workable, probably even better, but I hate to go through the pain. The record was a WinXP installation that I used every day for about ten years. No reinstall ever, and it was still really snappy and well behaved after all that time. Well as snappy as it could be on five years old hardware. Yes I migrated that installation from a previous system. Only reason I gave it up was that MS stopped providing important upgrades and some new programs wouldn't run on a 32 bit OS any more...
@@blahorgaslisk7763
Its just easier to switch to Linux, isn't it.
@@kensmith5694 I've dabled with Linux since the first kernel was released, but never got real fond of it. I was a UNIX admin for several years deploying and servicing Unix installations for customers using these to run commercial applications, and am certified, or at least I was certified for Unix System V and AIX version whatever, can't remember. But for some reason Linux strokes me the wrong way.
I think it's the many elitists you encounter who blows people off unless they can hack together a Linux from Scratch system in less than a couple of hours. Is it strange if people are put off when they are met with the attitude that if you don't know how everything works then go pound sand? If they knew then they wouldn't be asking, and if they are asking then they are trying to learn.
That and the huge diversity of distributions. Sure they are all GNU Linux, but they are often also very different from each other. I had customers running everything from pure Red Hat to CentOS to Ubuntu to LFS and who knows what else. And then there were Solaris. BSD and all the other Unix based operating systems. It seemed like every time they got stuck their system was just different enough that it took hours just to figure out just what the difference was that kept the "standard" solutions from working on their machine.
So while everybody is heaping praise over Linux for it's diversity and flexibility it's exactly that I find frustrating. With Windows there is one OS I have to learn to support and it looks and works almost exactly the same on workstations as on servers.
With Linux and Unix based operating systems there are probably at least ten major distributions and countless special versions I can run into all just slightly different from each other.
Don't get me wrong. Linux and Unix are great. But the diversity makes it darn hard to provide support for the customers who use them. If I could concentrate on one or two versions it might have been OK, but not the hundreds there are now.
Is he your real or step brother?
Same
I’m not gonna lie I was disappointed when he didn’t test out his hypothesis
Well he may be curious but he's not stupid
And going to sacrifice a pc for RUclips views
@@Venus.Y It might go viral and tell MS to finally fix that crap.
@@Venus.Y he has millions of subs he can get the money back easy
He can legit use a 300 dollar computer. This video sucks
Me:”yeah nice “ my mind: “bro i forgot everything you just said “
Jokes on this are not funny, they're just some employees trying to do the job
It's funny how one windows update that took 8 hours ruined my laptop and I had to go back to a system restore point.
the c: drive looked like it got cleared after the update finished installing
More like :c drive
Virgin C: users Vs chad / users
@@SFSAtlas c:windows/programfiles/halomcc
c:
C: drive is actually evil and plots against every windows user ever, do not trust the C: drive
I actually did this during an update on my laptop, and when I turned it on again, it was just updating again
I did, but i just unplugged it again til the tird time it said there was a problem and finally let me restore windows
Same
Absolute madlad
You're PC will enter a BLUESCREEN loop.
I accidentally powered off my pc today during the start of an update and when i tried to boot it back, it would not boot. I tried many things. Automatic repair wont do anything. I guess I have to reinstall Windows now. Currently using a live Linux bootable. All my files are safe though.
I can't express how much im glad to know that the loading thingy getting cut off sometimes is intentional
Shoutout to the 'Tomato Bisque' file in that update screen. Somewhere, Madison just had a cold shiver down her spine
What's the story behind that?
Who? What? Is this a Canadian thing? (UK viewer).
You know whatt's worse? Doing a disk health check. You don't even know if Windows will ever load again.
living near the Gulf of Mexico every update is a butt clencher with hurricanes around.
The video that i never asked for,but always wanted!!
ikr
I asked for it well not practically but I always wanna shut the pc off during an update for some reason
@@terigonUSAS12 ruclips.net/video/N9FsqXc01KY/видео.html
3:19 Props to the editor that scripted that clock to move properly in after effects.
I mean, you just set the minute hand to rotate at a steady speed and then you set the hour hand to rotate at 1/12 that speed. It would not take less effort to make them turn wrongly.
I didnt even notice that lol
Expressions....
But daylight didn't change at all 🤦♂️
@@vojtechstrnad1 12 minutes per hour, that sounds about right ;-p Edit: nope, I'm an idiot
@1:20 - What happens if the rollback is also interrupted? (perhaps by power loss again)
Getting Windows Updates
Don't turn off your computer:
Me RN: Updates are underway
Please keep your computer on
2:45 From the Advanced Options area, you also have the option of uninstalling the last update or feature update. As someone that repairs PCs for a living, those options have saved a PC from needing a Windows reinstall after an interrupted update, more often then not. If the system isn't booting, you have nothing to lose by trying it.
Yes, and rolling back is also a good option when for whatever reason the update messes up the font sizes etc. Suddenly having letters on the screen the size of my thumb was "interesting"
2:48 That is one of the most genius things I've ever heard
you dropped this 🧠
But can't you use explorer . ?
@@premnaik7264 , you can change the file type from text to all and you can uSe it like file explorer and backup all the data . I did it today 😂😂
@@LadderVictims cringe username
@@nikachitidze7219 oh the emoji is just a brain
Ah, so the world isn't gonna blow up if I turn off my pc
I’ve done this more times than I care to remember from all the failed updates
Why does my computer tell me not to turn it off during updates, when I only want to turn it off and NOT update?
Sameee
Ye same here 🥺
SAME. I just wanted to use Linux again, now it’s been an hour for windows to configure update. I’m gonna just turn off and see what happens.
@@DSX1 are you.. still alive?
@@Senilityy nothing major happened! :D
I'm still alive haha, my laptop just went straight back and updated properly in like 5 mins. gonna have to try that again sometime :)
Put 'And solutions' in the title. It will help a lot of persons. Great vid xoxo
''What If You Turn Off Your PC During An Update? And solutions''
..?????
Linus-:You could use another system to get your data.
Me(who only has one potato pc)-:So looks like Microsoft hates me. 😂😂
I like how at the end he went from treatening to "money speacking"
I genuinely asked that question five minutes ago as it was updating.
Sometimes if you interrupt the update the only fix is a new windows install,i have 300 computers at work and 600 idiots without patience.
@@Mircea076 Fark patience! 2-3 hours sucks balls
I don't even have to watch the video to know that it's 7 years of bad luck to turn off a computer before it finishes updating.
The wanderer was here.
Damn I definitely have 50+ years of bad luck now
thanks alot 10 year old me
Anyone else watching this because they accidentally did it 😐
I LOVE how he just says "gooey"
If I had enough money, I would have tried it myself Without worrying
Xd
Try in a VM
Windows won't damage your components so you're safe about the money.
I already do it all the time to stop updating lol
Wouldn’t you just need a hard drive to try it?