Windows updates aren’t always why your PC breaks after patching

Whenever Microsoft releases new updates for Windows, it’s pretty much expected now that users around the world will run into all kinds of error codes and messages. But one Microsoft veteran thinks it’s wrong to assume problems are always caused by the updates themselves.

In a recent post on his Microsoft dev blog, Raymond Chen says: “Before you check if an update caused your problem, check that it wasn’t a problem before the update.”

What he’s saying is that issues can actually...