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"Anything mechanical, give it a good bash." With these immortal words, Commander Colin Maud, in the classic WW2 movie The Longest Day, smacked a stalled tank with his cane, ushering in an unexpected restart that would allow the downed vehicle to putter away and resume its role in the D-Day invasion. I thought of Commander Maud when I heard Microsoft's cure for the catastrophic crash scenario that is, as I write this column, affecting Windows systems worldwide, grounding airline flights and shutting down retail, banking, and hospital systems.
Dear Reader,
"Anything mechanical, give it a good bash." With these immortal words, Commander Colin Maud, in the classic WW2 movie The Longest Day, smacked a stalled tank with his cane, ushering in an unexpected restart that would allow the downed vehicle to putter away and resume its role in the D-Day invasion. I thought of Commander Maud when I heard Microsoft's cure for the catastrophic crash scenario that is, as I write this column, affecting Windows systems worldwide, grounding airline flights and shutting down retail, banking, and hospital systems.
If you can't log in to delete the file with the weird filename that needs to be deleted, the best solution is to reboot the system over and over again until the problem goes away. No one seems to know exactly how many reboots it takes, but reports are that it could be "up to 15" [1].
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