As a caveat I had installed a supposed ESU for Windows 7. Then yesterday I received 4 security updates. After they loaded my IBM X230 default login screen and desktop wallpaper disappeared leaving a black background. I then checked the graphics Personalize tab and saw, while the IBM desktop wallpaper showed to be loaded, it was not. I was also unable to install any other wallpaper accept the default Windows 7. I.
I tried system restore, but as usual, it errored; I uninstalled the updates, but to no avail. I then tried a back up restore and that failed. I ended up using the recovery partition and figure once I get all the pre end of support updates, I'm going to clone the ssd, so I don't have this recovery issue in the future.
I tried system restore, but as usual, it errored; I uninstalled the updates, but to no avail. I then tried a back up restore and that failed. I ended up using the recovery partition and figure once I get all the pre end of support updates, I'm going to clone the ssd, so I don't have this recovery issue in the future.