We can only hope that moving forward, Microsoft calms down a bit on its aggressive push on new feature updates.

If there's a cumulative update that you want, it's easy enough to manually download and install it. Unfortunately, your best bet right now is probably to stay away from Windows Update entirely. If the company finds that the missing files are directly related to a certain PC characteristic, those users should stop seeing it as well. For example, there's an Intel driver that's preventing the update from being installed, so Microsoft's telemetry should see this and Windows Update should automatically stop offering the October 2018 Update to those users. The one safeguard that the company has in place is powered by AI. If not, it would arrive via Windows Update when Microsoft determined that all of your hardware and drivers were compatible with the update.

Previously, if you wanted the update on day one, you'd download Microsoft's Update Assistant tool, which would install the update on your machine. The concept of the 'seeker' isn't new, but the way that the update is delivered is new. That means that if you check for updates between now and the next five days, you could lose your locally stored files (I always recommend storing files in OneDrive, but that's neither here nor there). This isn't a minor issue, and the problem is that as we learned earlier this year, even if Microsoft has a fix, it probably won't release it until Patch Tuesday next week. People are finding that upon upgrading to Windows 10 version 1809, their documents and other personal files are going missing. Today though, an even more serious bug was reported by users on Reddit. There's a Task Manager bug that was known since the build shipped to the Fast ring, and there's a compatibility issue with an Intel driver that's preventing the update from being installed. Once again, Microsoft decided that anyone checking for updates is seeking out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, and it seems to once again be backfiring.

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