Re: Problems with "Windows Genuine Advantage" module after today's

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You sound like a pretty good father. :-)


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:11:32 -0700, Edward Ripley-Duggan
<EdwardRipleyDuggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|Thank god (and any other appropriate deities) indeed! This has been a
|cautionary lesson, one which your remarks reinforce. While I don't have
|updates set totally on automatic, I usually accept them without too much
|thought or concern. I shall probably install these updates individually, as
|you suggest, though I'm not in a rush to do so. Meanwhile. I have to
|apologize to my daughter...
|
|"LadyDungeness@xxxxxxxx" wrote:
|
|> I'm not a tech, just a wary user. In my experience, patches cause
|> trouble about three times a year. Sometimes just annoying, other
|> times so severe they prevent me from working and take up hours -- even
|> days -- of my time to fix.
|>
|> Thank god you have a restore point. That may be your best course of
|> action, unless you want to stop using Automatic Updates and learn to
|> download each update, navigate through the MS links to the KB & MSO
|> articles, read them, figure out the techno-speak, and make a guess as
|> to which one will cause trouble.
|>
|> For now, you can try installing each update, one at a time, with a
|> restore point before each, and see if you can ID the troublesome one.
|> Then you can install the others, and post here about the one that
|> causes a glitch.
|>
|>
|> Lady Dungeness
|> Crabby, but Great Legs!
|> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|>
.

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