Windows 10 Update Bricks PCs, Microsoft Offers Workarounds
A glitch in Microsoft’s Windows 10 update is causing systems to freeze after users tried to use the System Reboot function. Luckily, workarounds exist.
Microsoft has acknowledged that a Windows 10 bug is causing some users’ systems to freeze after using their System Restore feature.
The issue arose after users complained that when they updated Windows 10 and attempted to restart their system, they were met with a “Stop error” that blocked them from booting up. Microsoft for its part said in its advisory that “this is a known issue in Windows 10” and offered workarounds to the problem. “In this scenario, the system is not restored to the ‘R1’ restore point. Instead, the computer experiences a Stop error (0xc000021a). You restart the computer, but the system cannot return to the Windows desktop,” according to a Friday Microsoft advisory.
