Installed the latest Windows Update 10/11/05 now laptop doen't boo

Anyone else has this problem?
I have a compaq laptop running windows xp home SP2.

Last night I installed the latest security updates, promted me to reboot the
computer. On the reboot, the log into windows in safe mode popped up. Tried
booting in safe mode did not work, it got to a certain point and it reboots
itself. Tried again in normal mode, still the same result.

Then I tried booting from the windows xp cd and the repair windows doesn't
work at all. I'm at a loss. Did not back up any of my pictures, emails, etc.

I have WinXP SP2. When I installed all the updates today my IE was screwed
up. There were no drop down memu items on top toolbar showing but they would
drop down if I scrolled over them, my start menu lost all its small icons,
any folders I went to showed icons only and I could not change it back to
list like I normally have them, and a few other things were "changed" I don't
remember. So after reading the posts here, I UNINSTALLED all of the days
updates ( I had 8 of them) and then reinstalled one by one (this time with my
AV off) except I did not reinstall KB896688( only downloaded and saved it).

What I finally did was went to KB896688 on MS downloads site and then DL it
from there to SAVE and then decided to try it again installing from my own
computer and now my IE and computer all works fine. I also made sure I had
my AV
disabled this time when saving it and when installing it with nothing else
running or open. I think what happened when trying to DL all 8 from WIN
Update something got corrupted in the process of DL or installation.

If you scroll down here on this discussion board you will see many folks are
hainvg all sorts of problems with this months updates from MS especially I
think if you try to take them all from the WIN Update site usuing Express and
doing all of them at once.

But uninstall first and retry. To uninstall go to Start/Control Panel/Add
Remove Program. Tick where it says "Show Updates" at
the top right of the window. Click on the update and then on remove.

Dan in Wisconsin





"eggy" wrote:

> Anyone else has this problem?
> I have a compaq laptop running windows xp home SP2.
>
> Last night I installed the latest security updates, promted me to reboot the
> computer. On the reboot, the log into windows in safe mode popped up. Tried
> booting in safe mode did not work, it got to a certain point and it reboots
> itself. Tried again in normal mode, still the same result.
>
> Then I tried booting from the windows xp cd and the repair windows doesn't
> work at all. I'm at a loss. Did not back up any of my pictures, emails, etc.

Hey Dan,

Thanks for the instructions but I can't even boot up windows to uninstall
the updates.



"oknowhi" wrote:

> I have WinXP SP2. When I installed all the updates today my IE was screwed
> up. There were no drop down memu items on top toolbar showing but they would
> drop down if I scrolled over them, my start menu lost all its small icons,
> any folders I went to showed icons only and I could not change it back to
> list like I normally have them, and a few other things were "changed" I don't
> remember. So after reading the posts here, I UNINSTALLED all of the days
> updates ( I had 8 of them) and then reinstalled one by one (this time with my
> AV off) except I did not reinstall KB896688( only downloaded and saved it).
>
> What I finally did was went to KB896688 on MS downloads site and then DL it
> from there to SAVE and then decided to try it again installing from my own
> computer and now my IE and computer all works fine. I also made sure I had
> my AV
> disabled this time when saving it and when installing it with nothing else
> running or open. I think what happened when trying to DL all 8 from WIN
> Update something got corrupted in the process of DL or installation.
>
> If you scroll down here on this discussion board you will see many folks are
> hainvg all sorts of problems with this months updates from MS especially I
> think if you try to take them all from the WIN Update site usuing Express and
> doing all of them at once.
>
> But uninstall first and retry. To uninstall go to Start/Control Panel/Add
> Remove Program. Tick where it says "Show Updates" at
> the top right of the window. Click on the update and then on remove.
>
> Dan in Wisconsin
>
>
>
>
>
> "eggy" wrote:
>
> > Anyone else has this problem?
> > I have a compaq laptop running windows xp home SP2.
> >
> > Last night I installed the latest security updates, promted me to reboot the
> > computer. On the reboot, the log into windows in safe mode popped up. Tried
> > booting in safe mode did not work, it got to a certain point and it reboots
> > itself. Tried again in normal mode, still the same result.
> >
> > Then I tried booting from the windows xp cd and the repair windows doesn't
> > work at all. I'm at a loss. Did not back up any of my pictures, emails, etc.

We had the same problem. Installed updates on a laptop without problems and
then installed on one of our workstations and then found it could not boot.
The machine went into a cycle with the windows splash screen appearing and
then the system failing to load.

At that point we stopped doing the updates and as yet have not found a way
to recover the machine without wiping the disk and starting again.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

"eggy" wrote:

> Anyone else has this problem?
> I have a compaq laptop running windows xp home SP2.
>
> Last night I installed the latest security updates, promted me to reboot the
> computer. On the reboot, the log into windows in safe mode popped up. Tried
> booting in safe mode did not work, it got to a certain point and it reboots
> itself. Tried again in normal mode, still the same result.
>
> Then I tried booting from the windows xp cd and the repair windows doesn't
> work at all. I'm at a loss. Did not back up any of my pictures, emails, etc.

That is exactly the same problem i am experiencing! I'm thinking of
reinstalling windows xp pro. of course i'd be losing all my data, i should
have partitioned the drive or created a backup.


"moose2go" wrote:

> We had the same problem. Installed updates on a laptop without problems and
> then installed on one of our workstations and then found it could not boot.
> The machine went into a cycle with the windows splash screen appearing and
> then the system failing to load.
>
> At that point we stopped doing the updates and as yet have not found a way
> to recover the machine without wiping the disk and starting again.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> "eggy" wrote:
>
> > Anyone else has this problem?
> > I have a compaq laptop running windows xp home SP2.
> >
> > Last night I installed the latest security updates, promted me to reboot the
> > computer. On the reboot, the log into windows in safe mode popped up. Tried
> > booting in safe mode did not work, it got to a certain point and it reboots
> > itself. Tried again in normal mode, still the same result.
> >
> > Then I tried booting from the windows xp cd and the repair windows doesn't
> > work at all. I'm at a loss. Did not back up any of my pictures, emails, etc.

I got around the problem by using Winternals Emergency Disk Restore program.
It enabled me to log into the system and use the restore function to get back
beyond the update date. So the system is now up and running but i have not
applied the patches.

Thanks for the tip! I'll give that a try.


"moose2go" wrote:
> I got around the problem by using Winternals Emergency Disk Restore program.
> It enabled me to log into the system and use the restore function to get back
> beyond the update date. So the system is now up and running but i have not
> applied the patches.