Damn KB890830!!! Arrrrggggghhh.

I have spent almost as much time troubleshooting a failure to run of the
Malicious Software Removal Tool on two computers, as it would have taken to
"scrape and build".

Case A: HP Pavilion m7590n. Originally shipped with Windows MCE 2005 SP2;
upgraded to SP3. MSRT for August 2008 triggers a system restart, and all
updates failed. I finally ran "Custom", and installed each of 9 updates one
by stinking one. When I hit KB890830, as the installation progress bar was
marching across the screen, there was a very audible "click", as something
tripped the P.S., and system shut down, and restarted. Went into file system
check mode, and came back still wanting to run the MSRT.

Case B: HP Pavilion 6745C. Originally shipped with Windows Me, obtained a
Windows XP Home Edition SP2 upgrade pack from Fry's Electronics, and did a
clean install on NTFS partitions. Added SP3 before setting up the
applications. I let it run with 13 "Critical Updates" to work on, came back
to find it had rebooted spontaneously. Went back to the Windows Update site;
only four of the updates had installed. Went to "Custom" mode, and installed
all but KB890830. Installation was normal. However, as with Case A:,
KB890830 triggers a shutdown before it has begun to run. At this time, MSRT
has not been run on the Pavilion 6745C. I can't force it into Safe Mode the
same way as with the Pavilion m7590n; F8 key. Too tired to continue at this
time; been 12 hours since I began screwing around with this issue. Will
fight with it some other time.

Or, maybe, it is time to pitch Windows and switch to another OS? This really
sucks. Third month in a row that Windows Update has caused problems
requiring manually deleting system files, and manually downloading the
patching .exe files.

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.
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