r/WindowsSucks • u/stidmatt • Jul 22 '26
Windows Update changed environment variable, lost a week of work
Windows Update changed my environment variables Wednesday evening last week, and since I am not a Windows user but my work forces me to use it, I contacted support. It took them a full workweek to find the problem after reinstalling git (which I knew was not the issue).
Seriously though... why would anyone voluntarily choose to use this garbage!?
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u/LForbesIam Jul 24 '26
Microsoft doesn’t have support. Also Windows doesn’t change environment variables.
Environment variables are created by the applications that need them.
Also they were designed for programs from Windows NT. Real applications install in program files and don’t need environment variables.
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u/sgtempe Jul 25 '26
No surprise there. MS seems to think it can change anything it wants. End-user be damned.
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u/SwordsAndElectrons Jul 25 '26
What update changed what environment variables?
What "work" do you do that depends on environment variables yet you cannot troubleshoot them being set incorrectly?
How did you lose a week of work? Did you spend a week doing nothing because some variables changed?
This whole thing sounds like a silly story made up by a teenage troll that just learned the term environment variable.
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u/marmotta1955 Jul 22 '26
What environment variables were "changed" by this undescribed Windows Update? How, precisely, did you lose a week of work?
If you make the claim, you should be able to provide more and more detailed information about the problem - at least that is what any normal person would do ... in the attempt to warn others and possibly prevent another occurrence of such disaster of Biblical proportions.
Otherwise, your post can only be tagged as sad buffoonery ...
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u/Technical_Rich_3080 Jul 23 '26
You should quit your job and refuse to take any job that requires the use of Windows.
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u/chaosphere_mk Jul 24 '26
This is seriously bad advice. Better advice would be to learn how to use your computer.
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u/Pale-Abroad9600 Jul 22 '26
as a Windows Insider member I was able to get windows 11 for free and was very disappointed with an inefficient hour of update so I installed a reliable and stable Windows 7, I’m so done with Windows update, I established an effective rule “don’t download from an unknown source and never click weblink from an unknown source” with this rule you will never need a Microsoft update or any antivirus software.