rauspitz

Cool. Glad it worked out for you. Going through that whole thing was not a fun experience. It is weird how that happened. I would imagine there were some very interesting communications going back and forth between Automattic and our friends in Redmond. I definitely agree with you about Microsoft. They can make you completely crazy, and they’ve improved dramatically over how they used to be.

Good news! Last night I uninstalled all of the December 9, 2015 updates from Updates in the Control Panel and Microsoft One Cloud (I think that’s what they call it) from Uninstall Programs. Basically, anything Microsoft from December 9, 2015. I also de-activated Automatic Updates. This AM I re-activated automatic updates, ran all of the updates and it appears that my WordPress sites are all working properly again. Talk about a major relief! Nothing else I did worked so I’m reasonably sure this might be the solution.

This is definitely a Windows 8.1 issue. My WP sites basically don’t work on my 8.1 machine but run fine on my Windows 7 machine. I’m running Total and Cabin and they are both equally non-functional on the 8.1 machine. There were Windows updates this AM. I uninstalled them, did a reboot and it made no difference. The update messed something up, just wondering how they can be fixed in a short period of time. Hope someone has figured out a fix. I really don’t want to go to 10 yet if I don’t have to unless that’s the solution. Any help is appreciated.