Microsoft fixes Windows 10 bug forcing restarts

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Users had less than 60 seconds to save their work before the reboot

Microsoft has finally fixed a troublesome bug in Windows 10 that caused forced reboots on some systems running the October 2020 Update. The affected machines showed users a dialog box, telling t...

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