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No, after the fact. Where's the prompt at boot-time which asks you if you want to load yesterday's known-good state, or today's recently-updated state?

It's missing because users are not to be trusted with such things, and that's a philosophy with harmful consequences.



Isn't this in the boot options?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/advanced-startup...

> Last Known Good Configuration (advanced). Starts Windows with the last registry and driver configuration that worked successfully.


I don't have any affected systems to test with, but I'd be pretty surprised if that were an effective mechanism for un-breaking the crowdstruck machines. Registry and driver configuration is a rather small part of the picture.

And I don't think that's an accident either. Microsoft is not interested in providing end users with the kind of rollback functionality that you see in Linux (you can just pick which kernel to boot to) because you can get less money by empowering your users and more money by cooperating with people who want to spy on them.




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