Re: Problems after windowsupdate

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From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:07:38 -0400

do not update drivers for non-microsoft products from Microsoft. That is Commandment #1. 

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George Hester
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"Ian Barnes" <ianb@opteqint.net> wrote in message news:1bad301c45189$d33d35f0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> 
> I have just done a full windows update to a fresh install 
> of win2k. I have installed Office 2k aswell. 
> 
> So, to start off my issues I have blaster when I put in 
> my second drive. So after managing to manually download 
> the patch and apply it, I can work on the internet. I 
> then install SP4 thinking it will cut out of the 40 new 
> critical updates waiting for me. It did. It took it to 
> 30. Me being a fairly strict person with patches etc, I 
> goto the windowsupdate web site, and choose the downloads 
> I want to install. All the critical updates ones, alot of 
> the recomended ones, and the two driver updates. The one 
> being a realtek lan driver, and the other nvidia graphics 
> driver. Cool great, they download and install fine. No 
> errors, everything appears to have installed fine. Or has 
> it? 
> 
> The time comes to reboot and I do so only to find that to 
> my horror, windows only ever shows the blue background of 
> the desktop. No taskbar, no icons on the desktop, no 
> right click, no left click!!!?! So, i think, hmm, it 
> might be the grafix drivers, but then I think about the 
> problem, and that doesnt seem like the problem because of 
> the following reasons:
> 
> 1.) When windows starts, I see the screens preceding the 
> login window (Preparing network connections etc.)
> 2.) It auto logs me in, that works fine. (The login 
> window is more than 16 colors, so that works fine).
> 3.) The taskbar loads, and then poof, it dissapears, gone!
> 
> The icons on the desktop never load. Nothing else 
> happens. I think to myself, okay, let me try and run 
> explorer.exe manually so that i could maybe try and 
> uninstall some of the critical updates I just installed. 
> Nope, sorry for me, I cant run explorer.exe, nor can I 
> run taskman.exe!! I think "hmm, maybe I could boot up 
> into safe mode and work from there". IT DOES EXACTLY THE 
> SAME THING! IT STARTS UP SAFE MODE FINE, BUT THEN JUST AS 
> THE TASK BAR LOADS, IT DISSAPEARS AGAIN!!!! I MEAN WTF!!! 
> 
> One strange thing is that I can access the machine from a 
> networked machine. I cant browse the shares perfectly.
> 
> So now, I have the lovely task of formatting again (3rd 
> time) and reinstalling all my applications (about 30+) 
> again! Thats not to mention all the games that I will 
> have to reinstall (also about 10-20).
> 
> Now I appeal to any of you that could give me an idea of 
> how to fix this without formatting or reinstalling. I 
> would forever be indebted to you.
> 
> Thanks alot,
> Ian
> 
>

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