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Sadly you are probably going to turn out to be correct.
Around 10 or more years ago there was a similar update which broke a lot of machines.
When I am feeling lucky I will take an image and give it a go, I have the sense that it will be another few months until I feel lucky.
As for breaking Windows when they just supply an icon update - I am not surprised.
I work on a huge complex series of tightly coupled codebases and it's not rare for someone to break some part of the system by a seemingly unrelated change.
Refactoring code pretty much always breaks something.
What Microsoft obviously don't have are comprehensive unit or user tests.
Which does not make them too different to many other software development companies.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I seem to remember an update a few revs back had a problem with network shares. The fix was to load something into the registry. Could this be the same issue returning to haunt us?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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When I installed 2004, no network sharing worked, but then I discovered sharing was disabled by default. I enabled network discovery & sharing and that solved the issue.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Automatic updates on my bread-winning machine are turned off. And I'm now running Internet Explorer on my Surface, 'cause the "new" Edge can't.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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For every single windows version since W98 there was somebody complaining about updates.
If MS listened to customers, we would still be using DOS.
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Or ... they might fix bugs instead of adding features and papering over the cracks?
When an update introduces breaking changes, it's pretty understandable that people comment / warn / complain.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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They are fixing bugs, just not the bugs the users are affected by.
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I'm still clinging desperately to Windows 7 but I use my laptop with Windows 10 to participate in home schooling for my granddaughter. We do video calls in Messenger accessed by a URL invoked via Chrome browser.
Overnight, Windows 10 decided that Chrome is too insecure to be allowed access to the camera which is great to find out at the start of a rigidly scheduled time window for a video call. It took a while to track down where the camera blockage was coming from but installing Messenger and invoking it directly appeased the Microsloth ^%$^%$.
OldBikerPete
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Yep. It broke the print spooling so I was unable to print anything at all; it changed font sizes everywhere so that many programs were totally unusable, and many system dialogs were incorrectly sized so that cancel / ok buttons weren't accessible... and more. Have un-installed it three times but, like a virus, it kept coming back. Eventually followed advice on here and setup WSUS pointing to a non-existent server. No more issues since then, but of course no more updates either.
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Did you know Karl Marx had a sister? Her name was Onya and she invented the starting pistol.
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don't let the door hit you on the way out 
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I trust that she didn't invent it in the British Library.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm glad she invented it way back then: if she'd tried today, she'd be shot as a terrorist ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Jacquers wrote: Did you know Karl Marx had a sister?
I'm glad you remembered to end the question with the punctuation symbols from another of their family : Question Marx.
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Clearly, now is the time you should be ready to GO !
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I think you'll find that several here may grouch o'bout that.
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She was Groucho's sister.
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Grain left tampered with evidence (5)
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I want to say CLUES, but I can't thresh CUES into a grain.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You certainly have the syntax of it 
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Grain RICE
left L
tampered with (anag)
evidence
RELIC
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Ya
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Dear Microsoft: If the email has no content other than my signature and I click on the Discard button, please don't ask me to confirm!
Software is often so brainless. Because the programmers also are.
Now, granted, if I were writing a one-off email program, I would probably not bother to do that check. But this is a big giant company making a professional product that should be smarter than it is. And that's just one, very minor, issue I have with Outlook 365.
And yes, sometimes I click on "New Message" and decide, nope, I don't want to email so-and-so.
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Outlook 2019 does the same: "Do you want to discard changes?" - but only if you entered a recipient or typed something. A blank message just silently disappears ... which is the way I want it.
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