Windows updates have never been an enjoyable experience; it's usually more of a fingers-crossed "hope nothing goes wrong" moment every few weeks. But Microsoft wants to stop bricking your PC after an update.

As Windows Latest reports, Microsoft is adding a new recovery feature to Windows 10 that's meant to automatically detect when a startup after an update installation fails. The offending update will be uninstalled without the user having to do anything, which should result in the system becoming functional once again.

Microsoft will only uninstall the update if all other existing methods of recovery fail, according to a support document posted online. If the fix does require an uninstall, then the update will be flagged and no attempt to install it again will happen for 30 days. That will give Microsoft's Windows dev team time to look at the flagged update and figure out why it is failing on some systems.

Regardless of how this automatic recovery plays out on your desktop or laptop, the important thing for end users is it should mean no more, or at the very least, much fewer instances of a PC that worked becoming unusable due to an update.

Tomorrow is Patch Tuesday at which point this automatic uninstall feature should be live, so we could see it in action before the end of the day. You'll know it has happened on your system because the following message will pop up following the recovery: "We removed some recently installed updates to recover your device from a startup failure."