Re: Latest Windows Update

in this forum alone the have been about 30 odd posts with people having
roughly the same problems, all related to the same patch and when the patch
was removed all was well.
yes virus software was disabbled i also tried downloading not using windows
update and installed it with no other software running. same problem.
patch was made by ms for an ms operating system so it's an ms problem !!!!!



"Alias" wrote:

>
> "OneRound" <OneRound@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:D581C820-B20F-4F72-A88C-9CC5387C6796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >i also had user account issues after installing the latest ie update.
> > when i tried to access the user accounts it said error wrong number of
> > arguments or invalid property assignments.
> > also had active-x and other problems
> > uninstalling it was only fix i could find
> > is microsoft going to hold it's hands up and find a soloution ?
>
> If it was a problem with MS, everyone would have the problems you are
> having. I am not. On three computers in two different languages. Did you
> disable your anti virus' auto scan before attempting to install the updates?
>
> Alias
> >
> >
> > "Lawrence Garvin [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> Jon... this behavior is symptomatic of the profile or user hive of the
> >> registry being corrupted during the power off process.
> >>
> >> You should be able to retrieve Favorites, My Documents, etc. from the old
> >> profile and copy them into the new profile, but it's not really worth the
> >> effort to try to 'repair' it. (Though it appears you already did.)
> >>
> >> But, having said that, and noting that you traced the problem to a
> >> corrupted
> >> file table on the hard drive -- which is usually an indication of a
> >> /hardware/ failure -- what motivates you to blame Microsoft? First you
> >> need
> >> to understand the /cause/ of your problem, before pointing fingers.
> >>
> >> In your case, you have reasonable indication to suggest it's a hardware
> >> failure -- and if you rebuilt the system on the same hard drive, I'll bet
> >> you have the same problem within a couple of weeks.
> >>
> >> But the problem can also occur if somebody poweres down the machine
> >> prematurely, resulting in corruption of the registry, which is written to
> >> disk during the powerdown.
> >>
> >> "Jon Wojtowicz" <Jon Wojtowicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> >> message
> >> news:EA6D631E-DD8A-4DB2-8AA5-4DC6CD1C0CE1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> > My wife applied the latest update last Friday. After the required
> >> > reboot
> >> > it
> >> > said her profile was unavailable and that the default profile would be
> >> > used.
> >> > After the message it simply displayed an empty screen. Upon restart of
> >> > the
> >> > computer all that would happen is a disk read error.
> >> >
> >> > Using a data recovery tool on the drive it appeared the file table was
> >> > corrupt. Needless to say I spent my weekend recovering files and
> >> > reinstalling
> >> > Windows.
> >> >
> >> > <rant>
> >> > I feel Microsoft should have done a much better job of testing the
> >> > patch.
> >> > This situation seams to getting worse as time goes on. What ever
> >> > happened
> >> > to
> >> > software QA? You would think an organization with so much money would
> >> > be
> >> > able
> >> > to hire decent programmers not go for the cheapest as it appears they
> >> > have.
> >> > </rant>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
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