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The patching conundrum: When is good enough good enough?
Patches and updates are designed to fix problems, not cause them. But sometimes a few users still get bitten. When that happens, what do you do avoid, delay or dive in anyway? Zoljo / Getty Images
As Günter Born recently reported at Born s Tech and Windows World, KB4592438 has a bug that triggers a blue screen of death when you run the chkdsk c: /f command, leaving the hardware unable to boot. Several others confirmed the issue independently in the various venues and forums. Still others graciously decided to risk their systems and install the update and when they ran the command had zero issues. I tested it myself and also didn’t see a blue screen of death.