Microsoft released their April 2019 Patch Tuesday updates and since then users have reported performance issues and freezes in Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2. If users have enterprise antivirus software from Avast, Avira, McAfee, and Sophos installed, Windows may “become unresponsive upon restart after installing”” the recent April updates. On April 23rd
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