I started this post and did not turn off auto updates. I had the troubled update with no problems and figured i was safe.
wrong
Windows said that I needed to reboot to complete an update it automatically downloaded last night. I thought that update was not the faulty one and it crashed my HP laptop. I could not boot.
Fortunately, HP includes a system repair on a partition and fortunately I could go back to an earlier system restore. For HP you hit the escape key and system recovery is an option. An hour later, the problem was solved. For some reason I had to uninstall and reinstall chrome. I had to reset IE too.
I back up in the cloud so if some files went away, it would be ok.
yep----I wish I turned off the auto back up last week when you told me to.
[i hope you don't say ---i told you so
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