What If You Turn Off Your PC During An Update?

If your computer loses power while it's updating, does that automatically spell disaster?

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[LiquidusSnakeX]

Bios update during a thunderstorm is the best thrill in the world.

[vedvery]

Nothing happens when you turn off the PC during update.

*BIOS Update:- Imma ruin this man's whole PC.

[juanwasd]

Oh, so I wont get assassinated by a hitman hired by Microsoft.

[webbedshadow]

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.

[gamesdisk]

i can imagine that someone will be watching this video in a panic in the future

[mattsonn]

Had a mini heart attack seeing the “getting windows ready” in the beginning watching YouTube full screen.

[nebobyeoli]

Using NOTEPAD to open the FILE EXPLORER in freaking CMD MODE is the most _genius_ thing I've ever heard in a long while

[rafaelsoares]

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.

[kitten.]

me, who always turns off the computer when windows is updating as a kid: *chuckles* I'm in danger

[trekkiec]

"Even the most disastrous updates shouldn't touch your personal data on the drive."

Well you know, aside from that one time.

[DerMarkus]

User: "I'm using notepad now as my file browser!"
IT: "Wait, what?!"

[adharsh]

Me - going to attend online class at 10am
My computer - "Getting Windows ready. Don't turn off your computer"
Wtf 👁️👄👁️

[marcellofp]

Turning off a PC during an update is like replying to emails that say to not to reply

[enricocasanova]

User: "Will my computer be fine if I turn it off during an update?"

Linus: "Well yes, but actually no"

[jetjitten]

The note pad trick is something I never knew. Glad I know that now

[EmperorZarikar]

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.

[blazingfire]

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”

[Ninjz]

I clicked on this because I was curious, I learned a whole lesson.

[ROHiT__]

*" Microsoft Pork Simulator 2022 "*

-Linus, 2021




Edit : why did this get so many likes ?!

Thank you ?

[jon]

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