Comment by ttkari
7 years ago
I wonder if Microsoft is able to cancel the installation of already downloaded updates - if not, something like this might happen if the erroneous update was already downloaded in the background earlier. I think the default setting is that updates will be downloaded automatically and then installed later whenever the system decides there is a suitable period of "inactive time".
The update that deleted files wasn't ever an automatic one. You would have had to manually update. Fingers crossed they didn't mess up another. Seems unlikely.
Imagine the response if it was a forced automatic update...
...and this is why I never trust automatic updates. Hard to tell what caused something if the system is silently changing under you.