Re: So I got lucky!
Ditto, I suppose, although I think my update took a bit longer and was a little nerve-wracking:
My initial post-download, pre-restart install hung at 9% for *at least* 20 minutes (probably closer to 30); followed by a computer reboot rather than a windows restart — which I know because the Windows boot menu I'd enabled appeared — followed by *something* getting installed from 1% to 100%, with a non-standard progress display at the bottom of the screen; followed by another computer reboot; followed by a standard Windows update progress display going from 1% to 100%; followed by *another* computer reboot; followed by *another* standard Windows update progress display going from 1% to 100%; followed by a normal Windows restart (sans boot menu); followed by the Welcome screen. After logging in, I ran Windows update again, and a type of update for Windows Defender I don't recall seeing before got installed without requiring a restart. I then manually restarted Windows for good measure (as I usually do); Belarc Advisor gave me a clean bill of health; and I disabled updates using Sordum's Windows Update Blocker (as I always do between Patch Tuesdays to prevent drive-by updates). ShutUp10 didn't flag any reactivated privacy vulnerabilities and, most importantly, my computer isn't behaving any worse than it was before — in contrast to a few/several months back, where the Patch Tuesday install *seemed* to go smoothly but a number of things in Windows got borked and I had to restore a pre-update Macrium Reflect drive image for the first time and wait for a "fixed" update to become available.
VERY long story short, I guess I got lucky too. Still, though, it usually only takes me around five minutes to install Patch Tuesday updates, too. The LONG hang at 9% and the very unusual sequence of reboots had me on the verge of feeling anxious. If this story had popped up before Sunday, I probably would have held off, notwithstanding the three critical zero-day vulnerabilities that got patched. Speaking of which, back in the day when Windows Update was still serving up discrete updates for Windows, it was easy to vet Windows updates before installing them. If any of them were problematic, *someone* would post about it on the Net within thee days, tops. Nowadays, Windows-update bug reports seem to have all but disappeared from the Internet, or are showing up much later, like this one. Curious.